If that fails too, chkdsk /r on it as a last resort. Of course I can't find it now, but recuva is good and will probably do the same thing better. I had a bad thumb drive that wouldn't eject right and I had a program that I would have to run all the time to recover the files.
If not, then they got corrupted by a bad removal. + R to open the 'Power Users Tasks Menu' and select 'Command Prompt(Admin)'.įrom there switch to your thumb drive e: or whatever it is and then run ATTRIB -S -H *.* /S /D This will remove 'hidden and system' flags from the files. Go to start, in the search box type cmd and right click on the result and choose 'Open as Administrator' to open an Elevated Command Prompt. In Windows, you may want to first try to set all the files as visible.
