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    <title>Comment from Dedobe1 on 2009-05-14</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Stellar Phoenix Zip Recovery CAN NOT recovery any passwords.  It can repair corrupted passworded files to a specific ZIP version as long as you know what the password is. It's not a password cracking tool at all.</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from Vineet Kumar on 2009-04-01</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I know the name of best data recovery company and that is <a href="http://www.stellarinfo.com"><a href="http://www.stellarinfo.com">http://www.stellarinfo.com</a></a></p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from piyush on 2007-08-20</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>You can recover your password protected zip file, or a corrupted zip file with Stellar Phoenix Zip Recovery.<br />
<a href="http://www.stellarinfo.com/zip-recovery.htm"><a href="http://www.stellarinfo.com/zip-recovery.htm">http://www.stellarinfo.com/zip-recovery.htm</a></a></p>

<p>Best of luck...</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-08-21T04:44:28Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-05-13</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br />
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<p>Using the disk manager you'll probably have to create a new empty partition,<br />
and then format it.</p>

<p>Leo</p>

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    <published>2007-05-14T04:14:10Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Dev Sahani on 2007-05-13</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I got a new flash drive and then had heard a lot about the truecrypt software so decided on securing my disk with it. During trying to create a secure volume, I select the full device rather than a single folder. At the step when it asks to format the drive, I clicked on format, but it said that format failed.<br />
I have not been able to access my drive since then. When I plug it into the USB port, it shows as drive letter D: but clicking on it gives back a message 'Please insert a disk'<br />
I have tried to access it via 'computer management' but it simply shows Drive D: as 'no media' Chkdsk says it cannot access the drive. Trying to mount the volume using truecrypt itself does not work either.</p>

<p>Can you please help me, I did not have anything useful on the drive so data recovery is not my concern, all I want is to recover the space on my drive.</p>

<p>Look forward to hearing from you,<br />
Thanks,<br />
Dév</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-04-30</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br />
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<p>It depends on what technology you used to encrypt it. But in general, if you<br />
lose the password to an encrypted drive, you're probably screwed. Any decent<br />
encryption technology will not have a password recovery backdoor.</p>

<p>Leo<br />
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    <title>Comment from Mike on 2007-04-29</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I have forgotten my password to encrypt my drive.. wtf must I do?</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from nhone on 2007-03-23</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>so how to open the file or extract the file if the password is lost... and cracking or recovery doesnt work at all or failed many time.. Sugestion [ delete the file ] problem solved!</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from septimiu on 2007-02-13</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>i forgot my pasword and i need help please</p>]]>
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      <![CDATA[<p>hey  i forgot my pasword and i need help please i need your help:((</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from angela on 2007-02-03</title>
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      <![CDATA[<p>reset my password</p>]]>
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