Anybody familiar with guardian edge encryption?

[FXGuy3369]

I have a friend who brought me a crashed laptop hard drive. It is his laptop from when he was in the airforce. It has Guardian Edge encryption on it. All he want is his outlook .pst files. Anybody have experience with this or any ideas on how to go about getting data off it.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I haven't used that one but if the entire drive is encrypted, you will need a recovery disk and the encryption pw/key otherwise it will be pretty much impossible to decrypt!

 

[Modelworks]

Guardian edge has full disk by software , full disk by hardware or both at the same time. It uses AES 256 bit which there are things out that can crack it, but Guardian also has a second layer that the military uses where failure to enter the correct password will disable the drive completely in the drives hardware.

Check the drive with this program and see if it is passworded in hardware before trying anything else. If it is passworded in hardware then nothing you can do . If not then you may be able to get the data off but cracking the password will take a lot of cpu power + time.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5688.html

 

[JackBurton]

I'm very familiar with Guardian Edge, and you aren't getting ANY data off that drive without the GE credentials (either registered user account or built in GE admin account). And you aren't going to brute force the password either, so don't waste your time on it.

I would recommend just forgetting about that PST file, unless you can still contact the Air Force to see if they'll decrypted it for you.