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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mdee" data-source="post: 6025544" data-attributes="member: 218633">Solved it, here is the wayI was shocked to see most of contents in a flash drive were missing which I had accessed a day before. Many experts suggested that virus scan might have cleared it. But I was not convinced. When drive is accessed using command prompt too no different, but I got a clue – it was showing used space of drive properly. From command prompt I was could open a MS-Word doc not shown. After a long time I could recall use of dos command and fixed a single file successfully. Here is the way: Reason: Missing contents were not physically deleted, but got changed as Hidden.  Some articles suggest that this can be a result of virus known as console.exe specially on Vista OS Step to fix:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Click start>run>type in "cmd" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Type the location of your flash drive. For example "f:", "g:", etc. or any valid drive</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Type "dir /ah" (this shows hidden files)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Fix single folder/file</li> </ol><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Type "attrib [name of file/folder] -r -a -s -h" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To unhide a file, shall type file name completely with the extension for example “attrib mycat.jpg -r -a -s -h”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If file name is longer than 6 characters, shall type first 6 characters of file name followed by “~1”. For example customers.sql shall type “attrib custom~1.sql -r -a -s -h”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Repeat step 4 as necessary</li> </ul>5. Fix more sub-folders and files can use following<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">type "attrib *.* -r -a -s -h /s /d" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Note this can fix files with labels including space in between too</li> </ul>You can learn more about attrib command, type help attrib at command prompt Hope this is useful for you guys</blockquote>

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