How to find forgotten externial harddrives passwords for free

[borderbat]

i have a WD externial harddrive is there a way to find or reset my password without losing my data for free

 

[plasmastorm]

As the person who put the password on it. That's free.

 

[hang-the-9]

Is it encrypted? If it is, no way to get to the data unless you made a backup of the key.