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Fix Pen Drive Empty Problem Even The Drive Is Full

June 20, 2014 By Lilesh Moolya Leave a Comment



Fix Folder empty of pen drive

We all encounter such problem once if we use our PC regularly. Computer systems show a pen drive empty even if there is lot of files and folders in the drive. It is actually not the problem of your flash drive, it is just because the antivirus or some attribute error in the system. We all faced this issue. In this tutorial I will show you a simple and effective way to get all your files in such type of pen drive. It works like a charm. You can see all your contents and files in the pen drive in just simple steps. Follow the procedure and see the magic. Have a look!

It’s really annoying when our friends or colleague gives us flash drive to see the important files or folders and when you insert it you just get a message in computer stating “This folder is empty”. This really annoy us very much. Now don’t worry! You can get rid of such messages. Just simple steps and done! I have simplified the steps with shortcuts because it will be easy for you and also it will be faster. So let us do this and get all files within seconds.



Steps to Recover Files from Full But Empty Pen Drive

  • Insert your pen drive.
  • Open Command Prompt by pressing start key + R and then type “cmd” and hit “Run”.
  • You will see command prompt. Now just see below line and rename your drive letter. Here in this line it’s ‘x’. Change it to your pen drive letter.
attrib -h -r -s /s /d x:*.* 

  • Copy and paste using your mouse right click. It will work jus change the blue ‘x’ with your drive letter. If doesn’t work then type all as it is.
Command prompt code for file recovery
  • After pasting in command prompt hit “Enter” key. You will see nothing there. Close that and double click on your infected flash drive and voila! The files are there safely!
Easy, isn’t it? This command will only change attributes of the drive which is a system setting. After this change, your PC will show all files easily without any type of error! Just follow all steps carefully and it will work fine!

Works well in all Windows operating systems and this is the easiest way to do for such problem. Hope it worked for you. If you have any problem performing this procedure then please feel free to comment here.

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