Just all of a sudden all the files & folders turned into shortcuts showing 1KB or 2 in size when you connected your USB flash drive, memory card or hard drive to your PC? It should be a couple of GB as you saved so many documents, photos, movies etc to the disk drive. How could this happen? Where are those files? Are they hidden or deleted? How to recover the lost files and folders? It could happen if your PC hard drive or removable disk suffered certain kinds of virus, spyware or trojans such as AUTORUN, BUOUFO, QWERT etc.
How to fix Folders Shortcuts problem
Click 'Start' -->'Run' --> type 'cmd' and click OK. Note: if
you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, use "Home + R" combination and
type 'cmd'.
Input this command attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.* Take care of
the space between, it's recommended to copy the line and paste (Note:
here assume your drive letter shows as G: under 'My Computer', do not
forget to replace it if different).
