uma_martinez•16d agoProlific Poster

I just flushed $50 down the drain on a 'secure' USB drive that encrypted itself forever.

I bought this fancy drive from a tech stall at the mall, followed the weird setup instructions (which involved typing a command I didn't understand into my computer's terminal), and now it just shows a blinking red light and asks for a password I never set, so has anyone actually recovered data from a bricked encryption drive before?

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the_hayden16d ago

Did you try the default password from the manual?

richard22616d ago

Come on, that's the first thing anyone tries. The real issue is the manual is often wrong or outdated. I've had it fail more times than it's worked. You gotta check the vendor's site for a firmware update doc instead. Those default lists online are usually more reliable.

rowanharris15d ago

Man, that's rough. My buddy had something almost exactly like that happen with a drive he got at a convention. He typed in some command from a sketchy PDF and it just locked him out forever. He spent weeks trying every recovery trick online, even paid for some software that did nothing. In the end he had to accept the data was just gone, which really sucked because it was all his old photos. Those cheap encryption drives can be total traps.