How to Recover data from USB drive

To recover your data (which is converted to shortcuts)

Just follow these simple steps:

• Connect your pen/flash/external drive to your computer.

• Go to My Computers and check what drive it is assigned for example F: or G: drive. Lets assume its G: (replace it with correct letter as applicable in your case).

• Click on “Start” –>”Run”–> type cmd and hit OK. This will start command prompt.

• Enter the following command and hit “Enter”.

• attrib -H -R -S /S /D G:\*.*
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Also you can try:

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool