Data Recovery Forums - Help & Discussions

admin2 · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 55

If your data is missing, first thing to do is stop using the computer. If you use the same disk to run OS then you are overwriting you data as windows OS continously uses free space and you never know what is happending is back ground.
Connect the disk with some other computer as slave drive and look for data.
The way you described it, it seems that using recovery software is the only solution.

pittlers · Guest

If I recover what I can from the drives, and stick that on a backup drive, do I format the drives afterwards to erase the inaccessible files taking up space?

Just to be clear, there's no way to revert to the way I had it pre-virus? And there's no way to undo the damage, like, an opposite of what the virus did? The prospect of recovering and restoring everything is quite daunting.

pittlers · Guest

SCRATCH IT!!! I figured it out. The virus didn't delete my files, it HID them!! I knew they were still there. Still, every file on my D drive is hidden, and I can't unhide them because I can't see them, on my administrator level account. I also can't click unhide all subfolders in the folder above it because it is directly on the drive, no folder above it to select.

My question now: How do I unhide an entire drive?

admin2 · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 55

Open Command Prompt. For that

Click on Start –> Run –> cmd

For example, I have a directory called “abc” in root directory and I want to hide.
Change the directory one level back to the directory you want to hide.
Type attrib +h abc and hit Enter. That’s all, Perl folder is hidden now. You can type dir on the command prompt and you will not see Perl there in root directory.

Type attrib –h abc to unhide the folder.

+ and – are used to set and clear the attrib. Avaialable attributes are:

R – Set the file Read-Only
A – Set Archive attribute to files.
S – System file attributes
H – Hidden file attributes.

Note: attrib will show attributes of all the files in the current directory if typed without any switches.

pittlers · Guest

Thanks for your help. I have solved my problem a different way, however. For anyone who happens to have the same problem, here is what I did...

Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View (menu tab)-> (In the advanced settings list, under files and folders) Select Show hidden files and folders

Then the hidden files and folders were selectable to unhide the regular way on my empty looking drive.