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E.doe
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11 minutes ago, E.doe said:

Community, I have forgotten my Asus hard drive password not bios password

And is now asking for master password. Can someone teach me how to Go about it. Thanks.

There is no magic way of getting the password back.

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15 minutes ago, E.doe said:

Hello.

Community, I have forgotten my Asus hard drive password not bios password

And is now asking for master password. Can someone teach me how to Go about it. Thanks.

You've pretty much lost everything on that drive now... You can't just "recover" the password.

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Start guessing passwords. If you encrypted your hard drive and lost the password that's it, the data on the disk is lost.

 

There are some drives with vulnerabilities to break in, but not all drives have that problem, and most of the vulnerabilities require physically modifying the drive.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

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Best advice is to try and remember what password you used for most things back when you set up the encryption (if you used the same/similar passwords for things). If not, I'm afraid it's gone my dude.

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5 minutes ago, RumSwift said:

If not, I'm afraid it's gone my dude

Well, the drive can still be used, just all the data on it will be lost. One can reset any security-passwords on it by doing a ATA secure-erase on it.

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2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Well, the drive can still be used, just all the data on it will be lost. One can reset any security-passwords on it by doing a ATA secure-erase on it.

Should have been clearer, I was referring to the data there. Mb.

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That's unfortunate because even if you try to remove the HDD from your PC and clone it, the data inside remains inaccessible. You can still try cloning and check to see if on a new drive you can have access to your files:

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On 2/4/2019 at 4:47 PM, WereCatf said:

Well, the drive can still be used, just all the data on it will be lost. One can reset any security-passwords on it by doing a ATA secure-erase on it.

Hello, please can u teach me reset the hard disk password by ATA- secure- erase on the hard drive

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1 minute ago, E.doe said:

Hello, please can u teach me reset the hard disk password by ATA- secure- erase on the hard drive

Make a bootable Ubuntu Linux USB-stick and follow the instructions at https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase -- just make sure you're not erasing the wrong drive.

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When I reset drives I prefer to disconnect everything except for the drive that's going to be erased. I am sometimes doing a thousand thing at a  time ?

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