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whitebeach
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External Drive Contents Not Visible After Virus

I have an external hard drive that became infected.  After removing five viruses all the drive contents are now invisible.  How can I make the contents visible again?  Thanks in advance.

dickevans
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Re: External Drive Contents Not Visible After Virus


whitebeach wrote:

I have an external hard drive that became infected.  After removing five viruses all the drive contents are now invisible.  How can I make the contents visible again?  Thanks in advance.


Welcome,

Can you provide a bit more information? Operating system, which Norton Product you are running and the version, what methods you used to do the virus removal and any other details which will help us evaluate and understand your circumstances so we can offer valid assistance?

Thanks

Dick
Win7x64 SP1 current NIS V20
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whitebeach
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Re: External Drive Contents Not Visible After Virus

Windows XP.  Norton Internet Securities 2012.  Thanks!

dickevans
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whitebeach wrote:

Windows XP.  Norton Internet Securities 2012.  Thanks!


OK, that's part of the answer. Have you rebooted since the cleanup? What product did you use to do the virus removal? Can you see the drive using windows-my computer? What type of files are on the drive?

Thanks

Dick
Win7x64 SP1 current NIS V20
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whitebeach
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Re: External Drive Contents Not Visible After Virus-FIXED

I found a program called unhide.exe on mybleepingcomputer.com which fixed the problem.  Thank goodness for this person who wrote this program.