Windows 10: Computer is adding a lot of shortcut folders, in every USB drive that I plug in. All...

my computer is adding a lot of shortcut folders, in every USB drive that I plug in , and it keeps coming, back after erasing it and all shortcuts point's to cmd32. what can I do? * Moved from Community Center* Original title: Shortcuts

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help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.

 

USB shortcut

Hi David,

There are two types of shortcut virus: Flash Drive Shortcut virus and
Folder Shortcut virus. These two could make your USB drive or file folders become shortcuts which can cause the USB inaccessible with shortcut formats.

We'd like to know if there are missing files in your USB folders. If so, we suggest scanning your PC using antivirus program and see if it is infected by viruses.

We'll keep an eye out for your response.

 

exterior hard drive usable?

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• Plug USB hard drive into old computer.
• Open File Explorer (Win+E) and open the USB drive.
• Open another File Explorer window and open your documents folder.
• Drag files to the USB drive.
• Move drive to new computer.
• Drag files to their new homes in the matching documents/pictures/videos/whatever folders you use to organize.

Please let us know if you have any further issues. in uploading/ transferring data.

Thanks.