How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd
It is common these days to lose your data due to virus affecting you flash drives, memory cards etc. The virus can be removed and the data can be recovered easily by using the command prompt. Just follow the simple steps. Open the drive...
Part 1 of 2:
Making sure the data can be recovered
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Picture 1 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Open the drive that contains the virus. -
Picture 2 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Press Ctrl+A to select all. -
Picture 3 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Hit Alt+Enter to view properties. -
Picture 4 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Note the total space consumed by the data of the drive. -
Picture 5 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Compare it to the used space of the drive. If the used space exceeds the total size of the data, then it is possible to recover the lost data.- In other words, if the drive is showing more space consumed than the actual data inside the drive, then your lost data can be recovered.
Part 2 of 2:
Removing virus and recovering data through cmd
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Picture 6 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Press Ctrl+R at the desktop. -
Picture 7 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Type cmd and hit Enter. -
Picture 8 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Type the command: attrib -a -r -h -s /s /d x:*.* - Replace x with the drive letter and hit Enter.
Picture 9 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd - The drive will now contain a folder without any name. This folder contains your lost data.
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Picture 10 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Delete any unnecessary files that you see such as autorun.inf, recycle.bin etc. -
Picture 11 of How to Remove a Virus Using Cmd Backup your data and format the drive, if possible.
Update 05 March 2020
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