If you use Windows Vista, 7 or Windows 8, Windows 10, press and hold keyboard key 'Win' and the R, you will see run dialog pops, then type 'cmd' and click OK button.
If you use Windows XP, yu can go to 'Start' -> Run ->type 'cmd' and click OK button. Method 1: The virus may hide the files and folders, so you got to unhide them. To fix it, you need to kill the virus first. So why this happens and how we can fix it? Most of the time it's because that the external media drive is infected by virus trojans or worms like AUTORUN, QWERT, BUOUFO. Sounds similar? It's a common problem for removable drive such as external hard disk, USB flash drive, memory stick, pen drive and memory card turns into shortcut and files on the drive are not accessiable.
How to fix file folders become shortcuts & recover data in folders that turned into shortcutsĪll the folder in my pendrive become shortcut due to virus, how can I fix it and restore data? All my files and folders on my flash drive changed to shortcuts, how to get my files back?
