Password problems

does anyone kno how to fix my problem. i have forgotten my password n was told id hav to do a system recovery forr $400 dollars n i only spent $100 on my external hard drive for stricktly music. is there anything i can do?

Hi there, which external drive is the one that you have? As far as I know you can’t erase the password without the data…

…and as far as I know, even the data recovery won’t do it…   Your data isn’t lost, you’ve just got no password.

$400 might recover the encrypted data, but you’d still need a password…