Need a Solution to Recover Hidden Files from Pendrive

These days people make more use of Pen Drives as compared to CD, DVD and all optical disc because it cannot be reused and also take time to copy the files. Every user is holding pen drives because it is handy and easy to use. User can store all types of data like music, videos, documents and etc.

But one drawback of pen drive is that it does not contain any security measure when user connect it with many PCs as well as Laptops and because of this pen drive get easily infected with viruses and malware. User can get rid of these issues by using good antivirus program but no need to format it otherwise this will result in data loss. The issue takes place when user try to access the stored data from the pen drive. But when user go and see the property of pen drive and checks the disk usage then it displays the files in the pen drive but user can’t find any in the pen drive rather sometimes we are left with some shortcuts.

But no need to panic, all your essential files are undamaged, virus made them hidden. We use pen drives in order to transfer the data from one place to another. It is necessary to always hold your data with you. If you are using your pen drives then the biggest issue is viruses. The virus infected pen drive will hide all your files and to replace the hidden files, it will generate.exe extension. However hidden files can be viewed by clicking:

Folder option>>view>>show hidden files and folders

But there is no assurance that this will recovers all your hidden data from pen drive which is badly infected by viruses. The issue is very common and some queries that comes up with this issue is:

1. Files and Folders contained by pen drives are turned into shortcuts.
2. The space used by file in pen drive is same as before but I am not able to access it or open it.
3. Files and data in my external hard disk changed to shortcut files.

It is a manual way to recover hidden files from Pen Drives. But it will not work in recovering the complete data, so for that you require third party tool.

Here we will discuss the permanent solution to recover hidden files from pen drive

As we already know that user cannot recover the complete data because the pen drive is badly infected. One of the best solution is to make use of recovery application. There are many recovery applications in the market, user can make use of them according to its need. One of the most used recovery application is Pen Drive Data Recovery Software. User can use this application and recover hidden files from pen drive without any issue. It supports all types of pen drives and offers different recovery modes like Deleted, Formatted, Partitioned and Raw Data Recovery Mode.

I am Adolf Parker Software developer in an enterprise and a technology blogger. Developed many software and out latest software are Data Recovery Software and Virtual Drive Recovery Software.