Seeing “This folder is empty” when opening a USB drive? Here's a solution!

This step-by-step tutorial will show you what to do when you see “This folder is empty” when opening a USB drive.

This solution works for USB flash drives and external hard drives.

1. Type 'cmd' in the Windows search box.
2. Right-click on 'Command Prompt' and choose 'Run as administrator'.
3. Enter the following command: attrib -h -r -s /s /d f:\*.*
(replace f with the drive letter of your USB)
4. Press [Enter].
5. Close the command prompt window.
6. Check if your USB is displaying files.

[mengmeng]

Omg if I'm rich imma pay you right now! This works like a charm! Thank you!


It does shows the file folders now but when I try to access the file it does nothing... I'm afraid all my files are already corrupted 😭😭😭😭

[Tajulogics]

man your awesome thanks bro love u it worked for me

[rishandutta]

My pendrive got effected by some virus, one of the folder in my pendrive showing empty .How to recover the data of that folder..??

[josepaulobautista]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, man. God bless you.

[iodimetric]

thanks a lot. it works for my USB drive.😀

[AngelaShawWestoven]

Video with no sound. Hard to see and understand what to do using a cellphone. Doesn't say rather or not to use spaces between the letters when typing in the cmd.

[statesmk]

it worked like a second ago and now it said its empty, what the f

[khawlhring]

Im very thankyou sir, it helps me ...🤗

[arulabinesh]

Thank you bro...such a timely help...🙌

[driplightyear]

I don't get the 20 dislikes. This works 100%. I mean yea it's annoying that you have to do it every time but works