Recover Pendrive Files Infected by Shortcut Virus in PC (Windows)

Question : I have a flash drive and used it to save my favorite pictures and some important documents. But in this morning when I connected it to another computer, it was affected by a virus and turned to shortcut. This accident brings me many troubles. My files, images, folders in the pen drive are just shown as shortcuts and not inaccessible. I was wondering is it possible to recover those shortcut files? If it is possible, how can I do it?

Now I am extremely desperate because I have tried all the method suggested, by unhiding the files, install and run software to disable autorun, as well as antimalware. None of them works. If you know some effective way to recover files infected by shortcut virus, please help!

A shortcut virus infected hard disk, flash drive, pen drive can definitely create endless troubles. The names of the files might be altered by the virus and become shortcuts. In this condition, it becomes difficult for you to open or view those files even after eradicating the virus. But no worries. It is possible for you to recover virus infected files.

Solution 1. Recover shortcut files using CMD

If the flash drive is not formatted, the shortcut files must have been stored in the hardware in hidden mode. You can recover them using CMD by following these steps:

1. Connect Your Pen drive Via USB Port or Connect Your Memory Card via Adapter of USB Cable.

2. Go to your pen drive or memory cards or mobile phone directory. 

3. delete all *.lnk files. 

4. Go to Start -> Run -> cmd. 

5. Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:*.* 

6. Replace G with your drive letter. 

7. And then press Enter. 

8. Wait few Minute or Second (Depending on your pendrive storage capacity)

Finish all these steps you can check for your files in on the pen drive. If you can’t find the files you want, you can comment here.

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