Iforgot the Password of WD external (my pasport esential) and format the drive

Good evening to all

Fisrt a big thanks to person who created the forum

I hope some one can help me as i did something silly…i have an external hard drive (my passport essential) 250GB and i forgot the password…i tryied several times to attemp it but i wasent succes. Afriend told me to format the drive and than i can get a program (data recovery) and bring back at list 90% of my files.

the drive is full with videos and fammily photos and i tryied several programs but they cannot recover  anything…one program found only 250 files but at the end and almost 5 hours of searching nothing come out…did any one had simmilar problem? is any program that suport file recovery…i hope someone count help me as i fell very desperate

thanks a milion again

try TestDisk or Recuva