How to regain all data not showing in your hard disk or pen drive or memory card but present?

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How to regain all data not showing in your hard disk or pen drive or memory card but present?

Sometimes we find our pen drives, memory cards, our external hard disks and also our laptop or computer hard drives not showing the data present in it which isn't deleted though. They may contain precious data which cannot be downloaded from internet or restored in any way as it doesn't have a backup.

Who does it?

This is mainly caused by a virus or especially a trojan which has spread almost in all parts of the world.

What does it do?

It just deletes the file allocation table found in those memory devices and thus it appears that the data is completely lost.

How to recover it?

These steps should be followed as it is and should not be changed in any way.These steps are for windows type operating system mainly for Windows Xp but can also be performed on Windows 7.

Steps for XP:

1. Click on Start->Run
2. type "cmd" and press Enter
3. type the drive name which needs to be restored. Suppose your H: drive needs to be restored, then type "H:/"
4. type "dir/ah"
5. you can now well see the hidden rather assumed to be deleted data in a list.
6. type "attrib [name of file/folder] -r -a -s -h". If you're going to unhide files, you should type the whole name plus the extension (format).. example "attrib party.jpg -r -a -s -h".Suppose if you have folders with 6 characters and above, type the first 6 characters then "~1".. example for folder named "birthday", type "attrib birthd~1 -r -a -s -h" 
7. Repeatedly type "dir /ah" after unhiding some files/folders so you will know if they're now working or not.
8. Now check the drive. Everything is there as it should be.

Steps for Windows 7/8:

1. Click on Start
2. type "cmd" 
3. Right click on cmd 
4. Select "Run as administrator"
5. type the drive name which needs to be restored. Suppose your H: drive needs to be restored, then type "H:/"
6. type "dir/ah"
7. you can now well see the hidden rather assumed to be deleted data in a list.
8. type "attrib [name of file/folder] -r -a -s -h".if you're going to unhide files, you should type the whole name plus the extension (format).. example "attrib party.jpg -r -a -s -h".Suppose if you have folders with 6 characters and above, type the first 6 characters then "~1".. example for folder named "birthday", type "attrib birthd~1 -r -a -s -h" 
9. Repeatedly type "dir /ah" after unhiding some files/folders so you will know if they're now working or not.
10. Now check the drive. Everything is there as it should be. 

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