Data recovery on formatted device

Hello, is it possible to recover data from encrypted and formatted WDBAAF0010HBK?

My customer has forgot his password and on unlock screen touched format HDD.

When I run recovery software such as DiskInternals recovery, it’s possible to list files (with generated filenames), but content is broken (logically - because of encryption)

Unless they remember the password the data is useless there is no reset or work around. If you have a super computer you can try a brute force attack to attempt to break passwrd.

Joe

Go to some data recover services, maybe pay $200, they known the backdoor.

WD should make the date encrytion detail pubic.

Only say some AES 128bits means nothing.

oscar_chen wrote:

Only say some AES 128bits means nothing.

Well ya…

Go to some data recover services, maybe pay $200, they known the backdoor.

There is no “backdoor”.  Sure, they can retrieve the data, but they’re retrieving the encrypted data and it still needs to be decrypted to be any use to anyone.

WD should make the date encrytion detail pubic.

 That depends what “details” you’re referring to.  Some of the details are public, some are illegal to disclose, and disclosing others kinda defeats the purpose of the encryption.  But no, no matter what you “think” WD should be doing, they’re not going to provide tools to hack protected content.

ATA passwords are easy to defeat, but the SmartWare password is a LOT more sophisticated and can’t be cracked, or at least nobody is letting on.

See this thread:
http://forum.hddguru.com/unlock-book-essential-t19408-20.html