How To Recover Pendrive If It Becomes Shortcut
It’s a common problem that sometimes our pendrive becomes shortcut when it is entered into the computer. Then we can’t open it anymore. As a result we lose our important files, softwares, videos and so on. This problem is mainly occurs for shortcut virus. Many of us don’t know how to recover it. But it’s a very easy way.
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Let’s see – how to do it. It can be done by two ways.
1. By DOS command.
2. By anti-malware software
So, first of all we’ll see how to recover a shortcut pendrive by DOS command. For this enter your pendrive to the computer. Notice pendrive’s drive letter. Then go to Run (Windows+R) from start button. Write CMD and click Enter. Now write attrib –h –r –s /s /d j\\\/*.* command and click Enter. Here, write pendrive’s drive letter instead of j. That’s all. Check your pendrive. It’s ok.



