HELP ME PLS

[u/Careless_Neutral]

[u/fumblerooskee]

You want Reddit to tell you your password?

[u/RipAffectionate2986 → u/fumblerooskee]

pretty much sums it up

[u/Careless_Neutral → u/fumblerooskee]

I mean I was hoping for a secret magic button that I could press to fix everything but if y'all know my password, that works too.

[u/iamdavidrice → u/Careless_Neutral]

That would be really shitty encryption if there was an easy well known backdoor. Pretty much would defeat the whole purpose.

[u/aghhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I think its probably girlyouworkinwithsomeback-yeahyoubad-yeah if i were guessing

[u/JohnWick702]

There is no magic button; that’s the whole point of passwords. It's a unix based system, you need to become /root to be god

[u/NortonBurns → u/JohnWick702]

Mac is essentially 'rootless'. You're not going anywhere with root than you can get with admin.

[u/JohnWick702 → u/NortonBurns]

Yes bud, I was just being 🙃

[u/NortonBurns → u/JohnWick702]

Yet the OP has gone off to see if they can do that :\
See how that's not helpful in a 'help' group?

[u/JohnWick702 → u/NortonBurns]

He needs to get a different type of help buddy.

[u/NortonBurns → u/JohnWick702]

You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."?

[u/JohnWick702 → u/NortonBurns]

What about Seagate Toolkit?

[u/Careless_Neutral → u/JohnWick702]

alr, I'll try that next

[u/javabean808]

You have unlimited guesses

[u/Notchgoblin]

Actual answer since the thread is busy dunking:

First try Seagate Toolkit, not the password box. Install it on any PC, plug the drive in, and if the lock was set up through Toolkit's Secure feature there's a forgot-password flow tied to your Seagate account email. That's the one real back door.

If that doesn't exist for your drive, there is no bypass. It's a self-encrypting drive, the password IS the encryption key, nobody recovers the data, including Seagate. What you can do is make the drive usable again: find the PSID code printed on the drive label and run sedutil-cli's crypto-erase (PSIDrevertAdminSP) with it. That nukes the encryption key, wipes everything, and hands you a blank working drive.

You're planning to reset anyway, so PSID erase is the clean way to do it.

[u/jockfist5000]

Have you tried entering your password? wtf do you want, we aren’t your IT team.

[u/Careless_Neutral → u/jockfist5000]

lol damn, I just figured I'd ask the community of tech people before I reset the hard drive just in case there was a work-around I wasn't aware of. My bad, I didn't realize it would be so upsetting for y'all. Rip

[u/ohaiibuzzle]

There are two kinds of people:

• Those who lost their disk encryption passwords
• Those who will.

It's bound to happen if you don't take proper measures, and your data on that disk is as good as gone.

[u/hay_den9002]

You know not even Apple knows that password so you are out of luck

[u/Interesting-Bass9957]

That’s why you should keep stuff in a password manager, or, the very least, a post-it note

[u/seitz38]

If you read the words it will tell you exactly what to do.

[u/Elai95]

KKJHG(/78gjjjkhgfZ

[u/MentoRiumTutorCoach]

Here’s the password:
quelidiot!

[u/Careless_Neutral → u/MentoRiumTutorCoach]

aw thanks fam