How to recover files from a hard drive from virus deletion?

Sometimes, you may found that some all of your files disappeared. It is very likely that your drive has a virus attack. If you suspect that your hard drive or USB drive is infected by virus, you should take the antivirus software to scan the virus immediately. After scanning, it may found some virus there. You should choose to remove them, but if you fails to remove them, you need to delete them. But this action will delete your files, how can you do to recover the virus deleted files?

How to recover files from a hard drive from virus?

It’s nature that get your files deleted when moving the virus. After you scanned the infected drive, you can start to recover the lost files. Here are two way for you to retrieve the lost files from virus attack.

First, you can use the command prompt to recover the files.

Using the cmd to restore files is a simple and useful solution. Generally, you can recover data successfully by this way.

Open the cmd.exe and type “attrib –h –r –s/s/d G:\**” without quote, G is the drive letter of the drive you need to recover. Press Enter.

The system will execute this command automatically. After it ends, close the window and check the files in your drive.

Second, you can use the data recovery software to restore data deleted by virus.

After you found a virus infection, you should use the antivirus software to scan the infected drive immediately. You may lost some files in this process, but do not worry too much. Keep calm! The next step is to use a file recovery software to retrieve the files deleted by virus and antivirus software.

Restore files deleted by virus with file recovery software

Step 1: Launch Hdata recovery software and come to the software interface.

Step 2: Choose the recovery mode. You can click the button of Deleted Your Files Accidentally or Universal Recovery. If you want to recover files from the USB devices, you should click the button of Deleted Your Files From Flash Disk.

Step 3: Choose the partition which you need to recover. Click next to start the scan.

Step 4: Wait for the scanning ends. It may take some times, but it depends on the size of your files.

Step 5: Check the files you need. All the scanned results will show up here. You can click the file and folders to preview them, and then only check the files you need.

Step 6: Choose a recovery path for your files to be recovered. In case there is a recovery failure to overwrite data, you mustn’t choose this drive you need to recover as a recovery path.

Finally, you can check the files recovered in the recovery path. If there is no data overwritten occurs before you perform the recovery, you will get a 100% data recovery.

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