HOW TO TAKE CARE

YOUR FLASH DRIVE

1.      Don’t put them in the pockets of your
pants or shirt.
Many things can happen:
• The heat from your body can create moisture, which may condense into the
drive and cause corrosion and damage of electronic components therein.
• Small bits of dust, dirt and fluff that find their way into pockets can make
their way into the connector and cause a short circuit that would damage the
electronic components next time it is connected to power.
• You could bump into something very hard, causing the connecter to get bent
of break off completely.
• Don’t place the drive on your keychain either for similar reasons. If you need
to transport it, carry it around in a clean dry place and ensure the protective
connector cover is on at all times it’s not in use.
2.     When not in use, it must be kept in a
secure place, away from high temperature,
devices that produce magnetic emissions ie
your cell phone and of course water.
3. Keep the connector (the metal portion
inserted into the USB port) covered so that
dust and dirt will not accumulate inside.
4. After turning on the computer, allow the
operating system to boot. Once the
computer is ready, this is the time to
connect the flash drive to the USB port.
Inserting the flash drive before the computer
is turned on or while the system is booting
could cause a shock to the flash drive that
5. After use, do not remove the flash drive immediately
from the USB port.  Make it a practice to always use
“safely remove” procedure before pulling it out of the
USB port. 
 How to avoid your flash drives from
viruses?
• If there is a malware or malicious program that attacks your flash drive, scan it with an antivirus.
• Delete unknown programs that you can find or see in your flash drives, if cannot be deleted,
format your flash drive.

You can choose to view hidden files and folders on your PC by taking the following steps:
• Open any folder. ...
• Click on "Organize" button. ...
• Choose "Folder and Search Options" ...
• Hit the "View" tab. ...
• Select "Show hidden files and folders" option. ...
• Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" ...
• Click "Apply" and "OK" button.
Show hidden files on USB drive and memory card using
Attrib CMD

• 1. Plug in your hard drive, memory card or USB drive to your

computer
2. Go to the start menu, type in "cmd" in a search bar, hit enter and
then you can see something named "cmd. exe" under a list of
programs.
3. Right click "cmd. exe" and then you will get the command windows
that allows you to recover hidden files. Type in "attrib -h -r -s /s /d
drive letter:\*.*", for example, "attrib -h -r -s /s /d G:\*.*".