Tuesday, 24 February 2015

How to open hides files and folder using command prompt



How to open the hides files and folder using command prompt
The following are the procedure of opened the files and folder that are hide
1.       Go to Start>>All Programs>>Accessories>>Click Command Prompt.
Alternatively in recent version of windows you can click on Start and in the search box type "cmd" then press enter.

2. Navigate to the drive whose files are hidden and you want to recover
           Click Start>>Computer/My Computer.
         For example Removable F:

  Type F:  
then enter. You will notice that the blinking line will go down and display F:\>


2.      Now type in attrib -s -h -r /s /d then enter, the blinking line will go down again.


By typing the attrib command alone displays all files in the current directory with their attributes to the left of the directory path and file name. Files that have an "H" to the left are hidden files

5. Go to your drive, and see if you can now see all of the hidden files now
Briefly
Go to Start>>All Programs>>Accessories>>Click Command Prompt.
or 
Go to start>> Search programs and files write Cmd
C:\users\name>F:
F:\>
F:\>attrib -s -h -r /s /d .*.
 
 




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