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"I often encounter the situation that the USB flash drive is borrowed by colleagues to use, some personal files and confidential information in the disk is leaked, which makes me feel very distressed. I am anxious to solve this problem !"
You can easily solve this problem by hiding files inside the USB drive and unhiding these files when you need to access them. Now i will show you on how to hide or unhide the files on the USB flash drive in this post.
Step 1: Insert the USB flash drive into your computer, enter the "This PC" content storage interface, and select the USB flash drive where you want to hide your files.
Step 2:Choose the file or folder you want to hide, right click and select "Properties".
Step 3: In the General tab of Properties, click on the "Hidden" option , then click "OK" to confirm.
Finally, return to the interface of the USB flash drive file storage content again, you will find that the selected folders has been hidden.
If you need a more secure way to protect your files, you can use professional USB flash drive encryption software to encrypt or lock the files on the usb.Taking iSunshare SafeUSB Geniusas an example，the specific guide is displayed below.
Step 1: Download and install iSunshare SafeUSB Genius, it will automatically recognize your USB flash drive when it is inserted into your computer, click "Encrypt" buttons, then enter and confirm the password, click "OK". USB flash drive will be encrypted within seconds.
Step 2: With the software running and the USB drive encrypted, click "Unlock", then enter the password and press the "Unlock" button again.
Step 3: After the USB drive unlocking is finished, two USB drives will appear on your computer, one of them is a virtual disk installed by a real USB drive. You can choose important files to hide in the virtual disk and click "Lock" to make it invisible. When you want to access these files, enter the password to show them again.
Step 1: After the files/folders are hidden, if you want to view them again, you need to open the USB flash drive, find the "..." icon at the top of the windows display and click on "Options".
Step 2: In the "Folder Option" tab, click"View" to select "Show hidden files, folders, and drives", then click "Ok".
Step 3: After completing the above operation, you will see the hidden folders on USB flash drive , and the icon color of the hidden folders will be lighter than other folders.
Step 1: Insert the USB flash drive into the computer, remember the symbol of the flash drive, then press "Windows + R" to open the Run box and type "cmd" command，Click "OK".
Step 2: In the CMD windows, type in the symbol "H" for the USB drive, (the "H"need to replace accoding the letter of your USB drive), press "enter", then enter the attrib -s -h -r /s /g command and press"enter" to run it. After completing, the hidden files will appear.
Note: If you have not successfully recovered your hidden USB drive files by following the above actions, you need to consider that your USB drive files have been maliciously hidden by a virus.
Using professional USB flash drive encryption software to hide files can better protect the entire USB flash drive data. While encrypting the USB flash drive, it can also reduce the probability of losing data due to virus attack on the USB flash drive
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Sometimes you will want to unhide files in order to facilitate the use of the USB drive, you just need to follow the previous operation, right click on the hidden files or folders that have been shown, click to open the "Properties" option, uncheck "Hidden", then click "OK", you can unhide them successfully.
Conclusion:
It takes a few simple steps to hide/unhide the files on your USB flash drive. Besides, you can choose to encrypt your USB flash drive to provide a higher level of privacy for it. Do any of these methods apply to you? If you would like to know anything else about USB flash drives, please leave us a comment.
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