Well i managed to crack it!!!!
I used a wordlist containing all my possible passwords and the password that i had been trying first came up as the cracked password so I'm pretty sure that its correct and that my drive is damaged.
I've tried to use Testcrypt to restore the drive but no luck there either.
I may have backed up the drive to some other disks so i'll have to search for them and hope i haven't written over them all.
its been a fun experience getting hashcat working and its something i might revisit in the future if i can find anything else i need to get open.
thanks for all your help hblender if it hadn't been for you i would have just been in this thread talking to myself lol but hopefully someone else will find some use from it and maybe some of the other more experienced guys will chime in and give some advice if they do
I used a wordlist containing all my possible passwords and the password that i had been trying first came up as the cracked password so I'm pretty sure that its correct and that my drive is damaged.
I've tried to use Testcrypt to restore the drive but no luck there either.
I may have backed up the drive to some other disks so i'll have to search for them and hope i haven't written over them all.
its been a fun experience getting hashcat working and its something i might revisit in the future if i can find anything else i need to get open.
thanks for all your help hblender if it hadn't been for you i would have just been in this thread talking to myself lol but hopefully someone else will find some use from it and maybe some of the other more experienced guys will chime in and give some advice if they do