Yesterday, I was helping one of my friends with his computer. Once I speed up his computer, he put a strange thing in front of me. He plugged his 8 GB pen drive in to his computer. I moved to "My Computer" and found that there was data of size 2 GB in the pen drive as displayed on its drive Icon.
When I opened the pen drive, it was empty. He also told me that he surfed many websites/forums and found that there were many people facing the same problem but there was no exact working resolution. Some people suggested to format the pen drive, some suggested that the pen drive's hardware has problem but I feel them like fake posts as those were not helping people. My friend had to give exams next day and the data in pen drive was very very important for him. There was no need to format the drive. So, I finally thought to share it on my website to help people.
You may be laughing as this could be that the folders were hidden. So, I took the initial steps to resolve this problem.
Step 1: I moved to control panel and opened "Folder Options"
Step 2: In "Folder Options" under "View", I clicked "Show hidden files, folders and drives".
I was surprised that the data was still not visible in the pen drive. Finally, I ran my hands on command prompt and found a command.
This command works when your pen drive's data is not visible: attrib -h -r -s /s /d h:\*.*
In the command above, h: is the pen drive letter. When you plug your pen drive into your system then this letter could be different. All you have to do is change this letter accordingly in the command.
I'm sure, this will help many other people who are facing the same issue with their pen drives.
