How To Remove Virus From USB In Windows 10 Using CMD

In this guide we show how can you remove virus from USB drive, SD card, pen drive, in fact, any drive on a PC using Command Prompt.

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How to remove virus from USB drive, memory SD card and other drive using CMD in Windows 10

Just give you an example. I am going to transfer an ‘autorun.inf’ virus from my USB drive to my D: drive and delete that virus from my D: drive

Open Command Prompt from search and run as an administrator.
Type D: and press Enter.
Type attrib and press Enter. You’ll see autorun.inf virus listed.
To remove virus using CMD, type into your command prompt attrib -r -a -s -h . and press Enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. (. for all the files with all different types of file extensions).
Type del autorun.inf and enter, to delete the files.