Breaking Drive Encryption, Password Forgotten

[agentxisepic]

So a Friend bought a LaCie Porsche Design Encrypted Hard Disk Drive, when he set it up as his backup he wrote down the password, this password no longer works and from the methods I have seen on the web for removing the password from the drive. None of them work and I was just wondering if I could get any help with more input, I can tell you whatever you need to know if further info is required.

 

 

- Kiran Forrest

[Cyracus]

afaik, it's basically impossible unless there's a major flaw in how they encrypted it

[NumLock21]

Contact LaCie and see if they can help you out. Looks like the encryption software along with the controller within the drive derped or some crap. It's better to just leave the drive uncrypted and lock it in a god damn bank vault.

[dalekphalm]

2 hours ago, agentxisepic said:

So a Friend bought a LaCie Porsche Design Encrypted Hard Disk Drive, when he set it up as his backup he wrote down the password, this password no longer works and from the methods I have seen on the web for removing the password from the drive. None of them work and I was just wondering if I could get any help with more input, I can tell you whatever you need to know if further info is required.

 

 

- Kiran Forrest

Assuming this is hardware level encryption on the drive itself, you're boned. Reformat, and understand that the data is gone.

 

The odds of brute force cracking proper encrypting are super low, unless the password was basically worthless (meaning: easy to guess) anyway.

[AshleyAshes]

You're screwed.