Remove Shortcut from Pen Drive

Posted: April 9, 2011 in Tips and Tricks, Windows

Click on “Start” –>Run –> type cmd and click on OK.

Here I assume your pen drive letter as G:

Enter this command.

attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*

You can copy the above command –> Right-click in the Command Prompt and paste it.

Note: Don’t forget to replace the letter g with your pen drive letter.

Now press “Enter”.

Now check for your files and folder in Pen Drive.

Comments
  1. karma says:

    thanks for ur good steps but m very regret that say that after doing all still i cannot open my folder, please helpp me la

  2. rajesh says:

    i do it but in my pen drive still shortcut ,what i do?

  3. suraj says:

    i did it but in my pen drive still shortcut ,what i do?

  4. surendran says:

    thx friend

  5. some little thing is missing ,, first scan and fix “flash/pen drive” with a good antivirus
    then open command prompt … and then enter the command “attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*”
    look you need to change the letter “g” with actual drive letter ; may be ‘h’ or ‘f’ or any thing else..

    remember type the command and then press enter. wait few second and then go… it will be fine 🙂

  6. anutosh meher says:

    thanks, for this many time i was going to our IT dept,

  7. satish says:

    thanks friend

  8. Naveen says:

    Thanx for the steps. it really helped & i could able to retrieve my files. I also understand the comments of others. but i would like to say that, once u retrieve the files in pen drive, u will be having the short cuts as well as original files. You can move the original files to desktop & format the pen/flash drive to remove any virus. this way u are safe with your data as well as ur pen drive. Don’t get confused if u find both short cut icons as well as original files in ur pen drive once u follow the steps as stated. make sure to take backup of original files 7 format the pendrive.

    thanks.

  9. Brahmani says:

    Thank you so much for your suggestion…

  10. Brahmani says:

    Suggestions are very good and it really helpful…

    Thankxxx

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  13. loganand says:

    thanks its working

  14. jeyshri says:

    ya…it works…..very…thanks…this site is useful…..its not cheeting….

  15. sajeer says:

    thanks……. its working

  16. subhransu says:

    wow….that really worked….all the shortcut files were removed from ma hard disk…..thank u a lot…
    i got tensed how to remove but this procedure worked….thanx again….site is useful ofcourse…..

  17. giri says:

    AGAIN IT IS GETTING THE SAME SHORTVIRUS NO USE OF THIS TECHNIQUE, BEST OF LUCK IF YOU TRY THIS

  18. Shivendu says:

    what means “replace the letter g with your pen drive letter” send it on rajshivendu1@gmail.com

  19. imran says:

    thanks..its working..
    nice…nomore words to wish..

  20. DG says:

    My pendrive drive is G: . problem is that shortcut of it own created in my pendrive. then after click on file, then only i can see all my file. plz help me………

  21. Awsm.. Thnx buddy for the tip.. U r a life saver!! 🙂

  22. drpanthaki says:

    Thanks Buddy….GREAT HELP THROUGH SIMPLE STEPS………RECOMMEND TO ONE AND ALL>

  23. Mahesh says:

    Pls solve tis
    that in my pc whn i put my pendrive in my pc he showing me shortcut
    how to i remove tha pls help me

  24. hemanth says:

    how to remove shortcut in computer

  25. sandeep vuppula says:

    Thanks dude.. worked perfectly for me 🙂
    u saved me 🙂 🙂

  26. Sumit Kamdar says:

    Hello Admin,
    My Self Sumit Kamdar from Rajkot ( Gujrat, India ). Well i followed all this above steps but yet solution not defined please help me out from this terrific problem.

  27. Megyz says:

    thank you..it works ….;D

  28. vishnu says:

    u r great

  29. sanjay says:

    how do I remove the autorun.inf file????????????????????????

  30. karthik says:

    thank you boss,

  31. Nad says:

    thanks. dunno wat to do if you doesnt show how to remove it. a lot of important things on my pendrive. big thanks to you 🙂

  32. Naveen says:

    Thank U…..Its very Helpful

  33. FaRedPanda says:

    THANKYOU FIRST TIME SOLVING MY OWN PROBLEM REGARDING IT HEHE. U’RE AWESOME!

  34. Jaya says:

    Thank u very much its really working

  35. vignesh says:

    thank you for your steps it really worked!!!!

  36. baskar says:

    its not working in my computer. it was waste to try

  37. vidya says:

    how do I remove the autorun.inf file

  38. kaushal says:

    thnxx for such a good practical approach….

  39. rakesh says:

    thanks for suggest sir.

  40. santhu says:

    tnku

  41. Mahesh Kumar says:

    I do it but in my pen drive still shortcut , what i do?

  42. krishna rao says:

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