{"id":3678,"date":"2021-11-04T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3678"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:18:41","slug":"lost-wd-1tb-hd-smartware-password-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/lost-wd-1tb-hd-smartware-password-what-to-do\/70301.html","title":{"rendered":"Lost WD 1TB HD Smartware Password What To Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I have a WD Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB Hard Drive which comes with WD Smartware software. I had put a password in it without a hint and now I have lost the password. This hard drive use 256 bit hardware encryption. All my personnel and important data is in it and I am unable to remember the password. I just remember that the password starts with a S\/s and is 8 or 9 digits long.<\/p>\n<p>How can I unlock the drive without formatting it, is there any way to crack or hack the smartware and unlock it. I am willing to pay a hacker to hack smartware software and the password for me. What should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3678","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}