recover curropted files

Recover Files corrupted by virus

Hello Friends, Today one of my friend faced a problem after attaching his usb drive to a public computer. all his files have been converted to shortcuts which actually don’t work.

So its a Virus basically which creates as many shortcuts as your files and your files are not actually deleted but are converted into system files.

Steps to recover those deleted Files:

1. First Delete all shortcuts formed. Now goto Tools > folder options by pressing alt + t or going to menu of windows explorer.

2. Now go to View tab. In options given under view tab.
a. Check the check box “Do Not show hidden Files & Folders”.
b. Uncheck the check box “Hide Protected operating system files(recommended)”.

3. Now click apply and ok.

Now you can view and work on your files but they are not converted to original form. Please undo the above steps so that your computer does not show operating system files which may produce confusion.I’ll soon post how to convert system files to normal files