How to Recover Files from USB Pen Drive Infected by Shortcut Virus?

User Query: "Please Help! My pen drive got infected with shortcut virus. Now I am not able to see any files that I have been saving in the pen drive for last few years. When I connect it to my Windows 10 PC, I only see a shortcut. Within the shortcut, there is nothing. Can anyone tell me how to recover files infected by shortcut virus from USB? Waiting for an instant solution to this.”

Pen drive shortcut virus is very common in these days. It enters your pen drive, when you connect it to infected computer or other devices. When a pen drive is infected by shortcut virus all the files and folders are converted to shortcut files and does not open. Thus, you will lose all the data stored on that pen drive.

How would you recover lost files from a system infected by a Shortcut virus?

Method 1- Open command prompt and type attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.* (where “e” is drive letter, replace this with your drive letter i.e. pen drive). Then, open your pen drive to access the files. But, this method will not work always. Hence, this is not a feasible solution for your problem.

If you are wondering, how to perform virus file recovery from infected pen drive effectively. Then download and use - Remo Recover software.

Method 2- Remo software has designed Remo Recover software with advanced algorithms that helps to recover files from shortcut virus infected pen drive. The tool scans your entire pen drive and locate all the files. Even, files from corrupted and undetectable pen drive will be recovered.

Remo Recover helps to restore files from various brands of pen drive, such as SanDisk, HP, Transcend, Toshiba, Kingston, Sony, etc. With this tool, you can even recover files from infected memory card and other USB drives.

About Remo Hard Drive Recovery Software

The tool comes with Find option, which helps to find a particular file from the list of recovered files. Even, it allows you to pause recovery session to avoid rescanning of the entire drive using Save Recovery Session. Also, the software provides an option to recover hard drive bad sectors on Windows 10, Windows 8 & 8.1, Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003 & 2008. It creates disk images of hard drive having bad sectors. Later, you can get your data back from this disk image. Remo Recover can also be used to restore-

• Data from unbootable, failed and formatted hard drive
• Deleted and lost NTFS, exFAT, APFS, HFS+ and HFS partitions

Pen Drive Data Loss Situations Supported by Remo Recover:

• You may format your pen drive when you come across an error stating that you need to format it
• When pen drive turns to RAW, you may end up losing files stored on it
• The tool will even assist you in cases you are worried on how to recover files from fat32 hard drive or your any type of hard drive
• In case, you remove pen drive improperly when it is connected to any device, then there is a chance of file loss

Recover Files From USB Drive Infected By Shortcut Virus Using Remo Recover?

Download and install Remo Hard Drive Recovery software on your computer. Run the application and connect your infected pen drive to that computer.

• Now, from the main screen, select “Recover Partitions” option



• Next, the software lists all the drives (including system's hard drive & USB drives connected to the system). Now, choose the drive that represents the Pen drive and click Scan button



• Now, the software starts scanning the pen drive to locate the files infected by Shortcut virus
• After completion of the scanning process, the software displays the lists of all recoverable files. You can view the recovered files using File Type View or Data View



• Finally, select and save the required files in your destination location, including CD/DVD.

Conclusion:

We hope that this article has helped you recover data from the USB drive affected by a shortcut virus. Make use of the Remo Recover tool efficiently and recover files in various data loss scenarios.