Forgot my password in my My book Essential WD

My problem is very similar to below post. I have been using my 1T My Book Essential since 2011 or 2012 and in 2018. I have a prove of ownership. I even contacted the WD support team and I was told that without knowing the password, the only way was to format the drive but I have many important files that I cannot afford to lose. Just wondering if anybody had any luck in recovering the forgotten password or bypassing the security lock.
Any tips or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

> @themaddoctor I have a WD my book essentials 1TB drive and have forgotten the password I used to lock the drive.
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> I had registered my drive with WD and have that record and account listing the hard drive in.
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> I can also prove my ownership in different valid ways kindly help me out on how to decrypt the drive in Linux ( I’lll use the Kubuntu release ) or may be if you can help me recover the first 4 letters of the password ( I can list you all possible combinations I used) this or it would be great if you could remotely help me out
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> I am ready to put in efforts to perform this just need a kick start from your experience
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> Thanks

_Originally posted by @d8ytes in [#67](https://github.com/andlabs/reallymine/issues/67#issuecomment-394692702)_