Have this kind of things happened to you? Your precious files in your pendrive or external hard drive suddenly became shortcuts? I got the same problem 2 years ago. WHAT THE HECK!!! THIS MUST BE SOME KIND OF JOKE RIGHT?! It is kind of frustrating to have all of your assignments, notes and other important data lost just like that right? Well at that time I can't find a solution to this matter yet but I know that the files are still there except that they are actually hidden as system files as my friend told me so. So if you untick the "Hide protected operating system files" box in "folder and search option", you can see all of the files in grey colour.
But that's 2 years ago story. Last year my senior buddy gave me a .bat file which can recover all the files - That's what he says but I haven't got the chance to try it until the next semester. During that time, one of my precious group assignment projects was infected by this
Idon'tknowIfItIsAVirusOrWormButItMakesMyFilesHidden thing again. Hence, I tried the .bat file that my friend game me earlier and it works like a charm.