Step 1. Press Windows + R, type cmd, and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open elevated Command Prompt in your Windows 10 computer.
Step 2. Then you can type this command line: attrib -h -r -s /s /d E:\*.*, and hit Enter to unhide the files and folders in drive E. You should replace the drive letter with the exact drive letter of your computer. You can open This PC to check the drive letters of your computer hard drive partitions.
To help you better understand this attrib command, below is the explanation of each part of the command line.
- –h: It clears the Hidden file attribute to show hidden files.
- –r: It clears the Read-only file attribute to allow you modify the file after it shows.
- –s: It clears the System file attribute.
- /s: It applies attrib and any command-line options to matching files in the current directory and all of its subdirectories.
- /d: It applies attrib and any command-line options to directories.
