By Michael | Last Updated
Although we are increasingly aware of computer virus protection, it is inevitable that the hard drive may be attacked by viruses. Once it is attacked by virus, it will cause massive loss of computer data. But take it easy! follow the below mentioned ways and you can safely and easily recover the deleted files from virus attack hard drive.
When your hard drive is attacked by virus and the files are deleted or lost, the first way worthy trying is to recover them by CMD. Here's what to do.
Step 1: Open command prompt window as administrator.
Step 2: In the popup window, type chkdsk drive letter: /f (The drive letter is the infected drive) and hit Enter.
Step 3: Then type attrib -h -r -s /s /d drive letter:*.* and hit Enter.
Then the system will start to repair the virus attack hard drive and retrieve the deleted files from the hard drive. The process may take much time. Once done, you can open the hard drive to check the deleted files affected by the virus are restored or not. Actually, this way is not so effective and sometimes the hard drive cannot be accessed due to unauthorized permission. If this way fails, please continue reading the following sections about a more effective way to recover the deleted files.
iSunshare BitGenius is a reliable and powerful data recovery tool that can recover various kinds of lost or deleted files like photos, office documents, videos, emails, etc. Even if the data is lost or deleted from hard drive due to virus attack, iSunshare BitGenius always can restore the lost data in a high success rate. Here is how to use iSunshare BitGenius to restore the lost data from virus attack hard drive.
Step 1: Free download and install iSunshare BitGenius on your computer.
Step 2: Open this app and click the virus attack hard drive in the Hard Disk Drives section. Then click Start button on the bottom right of interface.
Step 3: The app will start to scan the lost or deleted files in the virus attack hard drive and the process may take much time. Once finished, all the lost files and their directories will be shown on the interface.
Step 4: Then you can choose to restore all the files or filter some files. Click Filter button and a box pops up. Here you can set the file type, size or time to narrow down the scanning result. Then click Apply button. Then the matched files will be shown on the right pane. Finally, you can check the lost files that you want to restore and click Recover button to restore.
You can search the keywords to look for the lost files from scanning result. Type some characters of the file in the searching box and click search button. Then the matched files will be displayed on the screen. Check the files that you want to recover and click Recover button.
Step 5: After clicking Recover button, you need to choose a location to store the recovered files.
Step 6: When the files are restored successfully, a box pops up prompting that data recovery is completed and ask you if open the recovery folder. Click Yes button and you will see all the lost files are recovered from the virus attack hard drive successfully.
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