Veracrypt password recovery [closed]
I really need some advice/help if anyone is able. Like a few others I see here, I have forgotten my Veracrypt password. Stupid I know. I am a total newbie in terms of this. I've been using hashcat and following the guidelines - trying to extract the first 512 bytes of the volume, but I just can't get it to work. Followed a couple of youtube videos also but it didn't work for me. I also tried using dd for windows.
In dd for windows I followed a youtube tutorial for extracting 512 bytes of the file, using this command:
dd.exe if=..\encrypted\[veracryptfile] of=..\encrypted\[veracryptfile]_hash.tc bs=512 count=1
but it didn't work for me. I don't know if I'm not using dd correctly or if I have the wrong version. It worked for the guy in the video, but when I hit enter it just repeated the same command again on the next line down.
Is it possible to just use Hashcat directly, without dd, to extract the hash? Or to brute force it?
I'm desperate to access the file. I don't really know what I'm doing or what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be hugely appreciated!
