Oct122010

How can I show hidden data on a USB drive?

Osama asks:

There is a strange malware/virus at the PCs at my university library, which cause the data on a USB drive to vanish apparently. Whenever I plug a USB in those PCs and then open it at my home, even after scanning and removing viruses with updated NOD32 in my PC, all pre-existing data in the USB is invisible.

When I check the space occupied by data, it is still as much as it was before, which means the data is still there. Note that I know the option to show hidden files and folders, but this data is still invisible and I am very frustrated because this happens every time.



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Anonymous

October 12, 2010

HiUSB Show ;It is a free little portable tool that shows all hidden files inside the USB Drive. Insert your USB Drive, launch USB Show executable file and hit Recovery The Hide File button to recover all hidden files. The developer’s language is Espanol, therefore the app starts in Espanol language by default. Change language to English,http://ldc.mx/usbshow.php

or
1) go to Run -> type regedit
2) now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE
MICROSOFTWINDOWS
CURRENTVERSIONExplorer
AdvancedFolderHidden
2) now you can see 2 keys NOHIDDEN and SHOWALL here
3) Set the CheckedValue of NOHIDDEN to 0 and CheckedValue of SHOWALL to 1
4) now try to select show hidden files and folders. This should show your hidden files and folders.

or
gp to run then type cmd then the following
X:>attrib -a -h -s * /s /d
X is your usb drive letter so choose it as is on your pc

Aibek

Hey Osama,

There are some good tips above, did you try any of them? Are you able to see the files now? Please let us know.

Aibek

October 14, 2010
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Osama

October 16, 2010

nope…none of the above are working and the software mentioned downloads as unreadable archive

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Nitshame

October 25, 2010

Excellent tips . finally i got relieved from boring hidden files.you should try the above . it is working 110%.

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Hossein Tootoonchy

November 11, 2010

thanks great software worked for me too perfectly , tanks guys

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Abdullahjani2007

December 8, 2010

Thanks a lot brother, the software worked.

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baba123

March 30, 2011

EASY WAY, NO SOFTWARE NEEDED!!! IM SERIOUS PEOPLE!
Just press Tools button on window links, press folder options, then a new window will pop up, click view tab… and in the list, there should be a sub folder option, which lets you choose to show hidden files, press apply then ok.
all files will show, hidden also but faded, right click select them all and click properties, then make sure there is nothing in the hidden check box!
duuuude sweeet! job done and bob is still your uncle!!! xx

Power4tim

lol it actually worked# sweet!

December 14, 2011
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lovebird

April 1, 2011

FRIENDS ITS 1000000000000000% great software do use it

Hi

USB Show ;
It is a free little portable tool that shows all hidden files inside the USB Drive. Insert your USB Drive, launch USB Show executable file and hit Recovery The Hide File button to recover all hidden files. The developer’s language is Espanol, therefore the app starts in Espanol language by default. Change language to English,
http://ldc.mx/usbshow.php

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Murugarajr

August 18, 2011

USBSHOW is a exalant tool to use recover virus affected USB

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muthuvelu

September 1, 2011

good tips nice
Thank you …

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Elton

September 27, 2011

software works very good.
thank you

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aaa

October 29, 2011

no guys not working for me non of the tips above :-(

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jedcross

January 24, 2012

wow! the software usb show is really good, i can see and open all my files that were hidden because of some file corruption virus, well thanks @ha14 for the post.

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abhishek

April 16, 2012

download”USB show” from internet
it just recovered all my files within a minute

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johnsmith

May 8, 2012

cool software..thnx alot

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irfan ali

May 10, 2012

thanx a lot bro & many many duwayen . sir g…………..