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Samsung m3 1TB Only showing shortcuts

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  • 21-03-2015 10:18am
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    snaps
    Registered Users Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭


    I've a weird problem and its got my wife in tears as all of her photos are backed up on this.

    Turning on the drive today the drive is showing as a folder. In this folder is only shortcuts which when clicked say the shortcut doesn't exist?

    Ive scanned the drive and removed 4 virus's. When I scan the drive in antivirus the photos are all there (About 95gb of them) as i see the file names being scanned.

    How do I access them again or find them?

    My wife is in bits here.


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    #2
    boatbuilder
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭boatbuilder


    They are probably just hidden.


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    #3
    boatbuilder
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭boatbuilder


    Go to start and run and type cmd and then enter.
    Then if your drive is say g: type the following and press enter...

    attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*


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    snaps
    Registered Users Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Ok, They do seem to be hidden in a invisible folder created by a virus......If that's possible? I've now found them by searching the drive with *.* and im trying to copy them over to my laptop so I can reformat this external drive.


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    #5
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Take a back up as soon as possible. To the cloud or dvd.


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