WD SmartWare Password Removal

[Jakiro]

Hi everyone,
I’m dealing with a WD20NMVW 2TB USB drive (ShrekLT)  with  encryption via JMicron JMS538S. . The customer set a password with WD SmartWare, but they forgot it.

The drive is healthy and not an SED drive. 

As far as I know, without the original password the data can’t be decrypted.

I just wanted to check if anyone has any ideas or tricks I might be missing.

Thanks!

[Artem Rubtsov]

Please email an SA backup  and several encrypted sectors from the beginning of the drive, I'll check if it's possible to decrypt the data. 

[Artem Rubtsov]

I guess your are not interested in recovery.

[pbzcbf...@gmail.com]

I have an obvious idea, but it requires another drive for potentially data destructive testing.