The passwords are like blown away - or just to good/safe i understand you correctly, the harddrives are not using ATA passwords. A friend had the same problem around 2000 and we used rainbowtables and a bruteforce tool, to recover successfully the Valero: That's no option for me.Īs far as i remember from rumous, there may be a way to read some special blocks from the drives bootblock or any other sections on the harddrive to unlock the saved password/drive with a little amount of i know about this like password protected office, zip, rar files. Yes, the drive sadly does a self-erase next time, since all my tries failed - and i have to confirm this action. Generally speaking (with some exceptions. Moreover those drive are encrypted with AES and user password would lock the drive, preventing it from being decrypted. (btw, i'm not sure if there was a password length limit) When people say they have a password set on WD USB drive they usually refer to WD SmartWare password, which in most cases (so far) is not an ATA password. The use of special and upper/lower chars and the length varries from time to time. No, i don't use fixed password shemes nor words from a dictionary. I will take a look to your posted link / reallymine. I got just this informations by checking the S/N:ĭescription: MY PASSPORT 4TB BLACK WORLDWIDEĭescription: MY PASSPORT ULTRA 4TB BLACK EMEA

I have tried the online warranty status to get hopefully the production date. This is probaly called WD smartware - i don't really know atm. In this case things become more complicated, as you'd have to try take an image of the encrypted drive first etc harddrive is crypted/protected with the buildin manufactor mechanism. Which then gives the question if your drive does self-erase after multiple wrong passwords had been entered. Do you passwords contain things that are in a dictionary? What is your typical password length? What characters do you use, which don't you use? If you have a weak password scheme, it might be possible to automatically brute force. The main question is if you have a fixed password scheme that you use for your passwords, and how good that is.

It will be really hard and take long, but it might be possible: WD Smartware for example back in 2015 were easy to crack due to them using a non-cryptographic random number generator. In the end, it all depends on if any security issues in the product make brute-forcing the password easier. First of all, what technology did you use to encrypt the harddrive? WD smartware? Bitlocker? Truecrypt? Veracrypt?

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