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2010-05-10 , 11:02
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Hi everybody

i have protected sd card also i forgot the password (moved from nokia n97), i tried to use it with my n900, but i got nothing, my n900 can't see it, any ideas please how to get it work in my n900

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2010-05-10 , 11:06
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When you say protected, do you mean encrypted? Or write protected using the slide switch on the side? I'm presuming the former but I just want to clarify
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:09
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Originally Posted by tswindell View Post
When you say protected, do you mean encrypted? Or write protected using the slide switch on the side? I'm presuming the former but I just want to clarify
password protected, forgotten password
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:13
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Unfortunately, there's not really anything you can do except format the disk and start over. If you've forgotten your password you're pretty screwed. Sorry
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:14
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format the disk !! how ? i tried a lot, no way for now
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:19
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Oh, you can't even format it? (You do realise formatting erases everything on the drive?)
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:22
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best thing is remove this protected sc from my n900 then put it in trash
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:23
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HOW did you encrypt/password protect the card? Are you using an encrypted file system or some other tool?

If it's not even possible to format the card, as in on the lowest level write to it ignoring whatever is on it, I'd say it's broken and not password protected...

When it comes to passwords, you most likely have a hunch about how many characters you might have used and if you used upper case and special characters. There are several tools to brute force simple password.
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:25
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Originally Posted by Joorin View Post
HOW did you encrypt/password protect the card? Are you using an encrypted file system or some other tool?

If it's not even possible to format the card, as in on the lowest level write to it ignoring whatever is on it, I'd say it's broken and not password protected...

When it comes to passwords, you most likely have a hunch about how many characters you might have used and if you used upper case and special characters. There are several tools to brute force simple password.
It was protected by symbian device, its not broken because when i try put it in symbian device i got prompt to insert the password,
 
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2010-05-10 , 11:28
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best thing is remove this protected sc from my n900 then put it in trash
If you're going to do that, try a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 count=4096

That should completely wipe out the first 2Mb (including the partition table) and hopefully you can format it normally afterwards.

(ONLY DO THIS IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT RETRIEVING DATA)
 
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