Files Hidden By Virus?

When King asked my help to un hide files from his flash disk which was hidden by a virus I was kinda embarrassed. We did check and the files were there alright. It's supposed to be easy as pie but I kinda forgot how it's done. At some point I kept on typing +h when it's supposed to be -h. Haha.

I know for a fact that this works in Windows OS but as far as versions are concerned I've only tried this for Win XP and Win 7. So here goes.

Step 1: Press that Window key on your keyboard. For Win XP type cmd on Run and for Win 7 type cmd on the box that says "Search programs and files."

After pressing Enter, a small black window appears. That is the command window.

Step 2: Type the drive letter of the flash disk whose files you'd like unhidden. For this example the drive letter is f:.  After that press the Enter key.

Step 3:  You are now inside your flash disk root directory. At the command prompt type attrib -s -h /s /d then press Enter.

That should do the trick *wink*. 

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Note:  -   clears an attribute; 

          s   system file attribute;                                                

          h   hidden file attribute; 

          /s  process files in current folder and all subfolders;        

          /d  process folders as well