Saturday, December 10, 2016

How to View Hidden Files And Folder using Command Prompt in Windows

Process To View All The Hidden Files And Folder using Command Prompt in Windows

This is mostly happen when customer bring a USB flash drive to computer shop and want to print or copy files and they are infected with virus or malware.


  1. Open Command Prompt (CMD) as an Administrator.
  2. Navigate to the drive whose files are hidden and you want to recover.
  3. For instance, if you wanted to change the drive from “ C:” to “ D:”, you should type “d:” and then press Enter on your keyboard .
  4. Then Type attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.* and hit Enter.
  5. That is it. Now you will get all the hidden files and folder as general files and you can use it.


Screen Shoot Below:

First two photos is the USB with file  but when it open there is no file inside they are all hidden



CMD command

After CMD command file show up




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