Nowadays there are many viruses that has low damage that hidden any files at your flash drive. Most of my friend I know got those kind of viruses from public internet or trying to install unknown software.
Actually to view hide a files on you flash drive is easy, just open Windows Explorer and press alt + t from your keyboard and click Folder Option then View tab. From there you can click Show hidden files, folders and drives. Maybe some virus can fake your file to become as operating system files so you need to uncheck Hide protected operating system files. Remember this view isn’t recommended so revert it back to default.
But above way just to view files on your flash drive not to recover them. Don’t worry I will tell you above way just to make sure that your files still there but hidden and you can recover it. First of all scan your computer with a best antivirus you have to make sure it won’t infect your computer.
After that follow the steps below:
- Press start + r from your keyboard and type cmd on open form to open windows command prompt.
- Type d: then press enter from keyboard to change active drive. In this example I suppose your flash drive is D.
- Type attrib –r –s –h /s /d *.* then press enter from keyboard.
To prove that you have recover your files just access your flash drive from Windows Explorer. Enjoy it!