Hiding Files in Windows using Command Prompt

People normally prefer to hide the private and important data in their PC in order to keep it away from the people who have access to that system.Windows provides an option where you can change the file type into hidden select "don't show hidden file".The main draw back of this feature is anybody can change the option from "Don't Show hidden file" from "Show hidden file".

There is one more method which is very secured in  windows to hide files,That is using command prompt. Command prompt provides acommand called "attrib" using which one can hide and unhide the files.

 Here is a step by step information about how to hide/unhide files using "attrib" command.

Hiding:
Step 1:

Open the disk in which you have stored the file which you want to hide.

Stepa 2

Open command prompt and type following code "attrib +r +s +h /s /d Disk_Name:\file name"
If the file is inside another file run following command "attrib +r +s +h /s /d Disk_Name:\file path"

 You can see that file is invisible now.

Unhiding :

 Open the command prompt and run the following command to unhide the files which you have hidden.
"attrib -r -s -h /s /d Disk_Name:\filename"

This command also can be used to recover the files from disks or usb drives which are effected by virus which hide the files and just show their short cuts in the disk.

Run the following command to recover files from disk affected by virus like autorun.
"attrib -r -s -h /s /d Disk_Name:\*.*"

Hope this post was usefull.
Have a nice day!!!.