My file became a shortcut icon in external hard disk

I have faced same problem. Shortcuts everywhere.
Not once, many times.

I tried many solutions.

Shortcut Virus Remover is the best solution I found.

A 100% free simple application.

You can download it from this link - http://www.shortcutvirusremover.com

Place it in your pen drive and double click to run. Press Enter to confirm its process. That is all. Shortcuts will remove and your data will be back in a second.

Plug your hard disk into the USB port.

Hold down windows key on the keyboard and press "E" key, this will bring up a window "My Computer"

In there you will see a series of disk drives "local disk (C:) Hard disk
Devices with removable storage "(D:)" CD Rom/DVD player.

There should be another one, Expansion drive (E:) or another letter.

Right click on the Expansion drive select "create shortcut"

It will ask you if you want to place a shortcut on the Desktopl

Click yes and there you are.

If the external drive won't show, shut down the computer, unplug the drive.

restart the computer, after the computer has finished starting, plug in the external drive. and run through the steps above.

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Can you open the shortcut properties and find the location of the original file?

I can not format a transcend external hard disk.Please Solution it problem.

Connect the external drive.
Open 'My Computer'.
One of the icons should be associated with the external drive.
Double-click the icon to "open" the external drive, to show the files/folders on the drive.

The hard disk inside that Spire case has died - running the free space clean from CCleaner (a very intensive procedure) has been the death blow to an already sick disk.. Nothing more can be done to save it and the data on it. Replace it with a new one.

Hi right click on the file you want to put on the ext. hard drive. You will see a option "send to" click that then choose the ext hard drive. This will sent the whole file and not just a shortcut. Thank you for using Fixya.com

I found this on this site. in case you havent seen it. It worked for me. Try this:

When I disconnected my backup drive and plugged in a USB drive the other night, my Windows drive letters got all wonky. D: became G: became F: became H:, and a bunch of my shortcuts didn't work anymore.
But it's easy to reassign the drive letters of your choice to add-on disks in Windows. Microsoft says you should log on as an administrator, and from Administrative Tools in Control Panel:
Double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Of course things can get wacky if the disk is in use - by your computer or another on the network - so proceed with caution, you drive alphabetizer, you.
How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP [Microsoft TechNet] Read More: Windows, Hard Drives