Thursday, March 22, 2012

Unhide Your Hidden Files after Virus Infection Happens on Your Flash Drive

Is your USB Flash disk ever been infected by a virus and the result is all you files and folder are gone? But wait when went to the technical support personnel in you workplace they says that it is not gone all your files and folder are still there. Feeling confused, you may say but when i check my USB flash drive i cannot see all my files and folder? But if did a deeper probe, by checking the properties of your USB flash drive, you can see that it indicates that your USB flash drive is half full or almost full depending on how many files it contains before the virus infection. Still confuse, well do not be.

Here is what happens, when your flash drive got infected by the virus, it hides all your files and folder and then creates a copy of itself. But that copy of itself is not going to look like a virus, it will look like a regular folder inside your flash drive. The moment you click it, it will even more infect all the other files and folder in your flash drive. Ever seen a folder that when you tried to open it via the double click method, it did not open instead nothing happen, there is no reaction from the folder. A closer will reveal that it is not really a folder it is an application. Take a closer look at the screenshot below.


You can see that a folder is identified as folder and an application is identified as an application in a non-infected drive. To get this kind of view, please select the detail option when displaying the content of your flash drive. Now after the infection happened. All your folder and files is hidden not deleted or erased. You are left with an application that looks like a folder, but when you view it like this you can see that the folder has been classified as an application. When you see a folder that has been classified as an application then definitely it is a virus.

Have your flash drive scan immediately to avoid the virus from infecting other places in your flash drive or drive or any type of container. DO NOT click or double click it. Now how do you recover your files if it has been hidden after a virus infection? Well first make sure that you have scanned and cleaned your flash drive. Next attach it to a clean computer, a computer that has not been infected by the same virus. After is has been recognized by the computer. Follow this step very carefully. First look for a utility or program called FOLDER OPTION. The FOLDER OPTION has three tabs they are the GENERAL, VIEW and SEARCH. Please see the screen shot below.

From the screen shot above the three tabs can be seen. The next step selects the VIEW tab. Please see screen shot below. This is where you're going to make the hidden files from your flash drive visible again. For the nest step please select the Show Hidden files, folders and rive option and unchecked all the check boxes for the three following option. The Hide empty drives in the computer, Hide extension for known file types and Hide protected operating system files then clicks the OK button. But wait before you go any further a word of caution, make sure to go directly to the flash drive and do not do to the main hard drive which contains the system files. The system files are hidden by default to protect against accidental erasure. Now that you un-hide it, it is now very open for such an accident. Whatever you do, go directly to the flash drive to get all your files.

Now that we have cleared that the next step is to proceed to your flash drive and view it again. After editing the folder option, you can now see your folder. They are now safe to open via the double click. Do not copy the folder because they will be invisible after you redo the folder option. Open the entire folder individually and move all the files inside them to a newly created folder and all your folder will accessible to your once again. Now after recovering your files from the entire affected folder. The entire affected folder can now be deleted from your flash drive. Now for the last part go back to the FOLDER OPTION and put the check mark on all the boxes that you have unchecked earlier and select the other option to return all folder to their normal state. All system files must be hidden the same as before and press the OK button and close the FOLDER OPTION.
Remember when ever a virus has infected your flash drive. It will try to fool you by making you think that all your files have been deleted. Do not be fooled by this kind of virus infection. Make sure that you scan your flash drive and have the virus removed and make a deeper probe to see if all your files is still there. Do not format the flash drive as soon as you see that it appears to empty. Remember you smarter than any virus.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Deleted Photo Recovery on Your Sony Camera

Have you had a lapse of eye-hand coordination to delete your photos on your computer's hard drive or camera's memory card when you are indicated with "Delete All?" message? You may inadvertently delete your valuable photos. Don’t worry! You are able to recover deleted photos as long as you don't take any more photos with your camera or don't make any changes on your hard drive after you deleted them.

Actually, your photos' data are still there, and the delete command only marks the space on your hard drive or memory card as being available for use instead of overwriting the actual space on it. Consequently, as long as you don’t do any change on your card or hard drive, it is quiet easy to recover deleted photos using Deleted Photo Recovery. What’s more, you are able to recover photos from a reformatted partition, or memory card if you use a standard format command rather than a low-level format. (A low-level format not only deletes all the data on the card, but it also recreates the directories and folder structure of the disk/card, rendering previously deleted files unrecoverable.)

Recover Deleted Photos from Sony Camera

Deleted Photo Recovery is such an effective utility which can easily recover deleted pictures from hard drive, most types of digital camera storage including SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Sony Memory Sticks, IBM Micro Drives, Flash cards, floppy disks, and many other types of digital film.

Follow the easy steps below to learn how it works.

1. You need to download and install Tenorshare Deleted Photo Recovery on a different partition where your formatted/ deleted photos stored. (Download it from http://goo.gl/MFsT1 )
If you want to recover lost photos on your SD card, plug your card reader with memory card inserted.

2. Scan
Choose recovery mode based on your dilemma you meet. Click "Deleted Recovery" when you need to recover deleted photos; click "Formatted Recovery" when you want to recover reformatted photos.
Choose the partition or external media. (For recovering formatted photos, there is one more step for selecting file system). Click "Scan".
3. Recover
A list of recoverable files will appear. Tick the button in front of the file's name to choose the ones you need to recover.
Click "Recover".
4. Save
Specify a location for your recovered photos. You can’t choose the same partition where your lost files stored. Click "OK".

After a trial, you may find this program is much useful to recover deleted photos. Grab it!

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