I suppose, no one mentioned yet : HAKIN9 magazine

Thnx a lot !!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone !  
Let there be joy and happiness in your lives through all the year 2010! Let there be strength to overcome difficulties and keep your head up whatever happens !

Although I'm a newbie, still would love to try ! 
Looking forward to more updates.

Great idea !   I'll think about the projects.
And certainly, I would also be grateful to contribute. With pleasure !!!

Is it an updated one? I just ran into some information about the book, may be useful to all interested - f0rb1dd3n updates

I'm so overwhelmed with the description! Can't wait to read it! 

But ,as i see from description, there is no WPA2 support However, i may be wrong.

Why is the need of recovering the password? You can just set the new one in the router settings.

Sorry, probably because of my bad English, you understood that I did put it in the freezer, but actually I didn't. I wanted to, but the drive started working by itself.
Still, big thanks for a great advice, it is still usefull, as I'm not sure that it won't happen again. So i think i'll follow it.  

Here is the discussion about that question: Format an encrypted drive
From that discussion i would say, that, first of all, determine how and where the encryption is implemented. Actually, i think that's the key point, as you'll know then what you are dealing with and what kind of tools you need to bypass the security. Can't tell more precisely, as I don't know the situation. 

BTW, is the drive internal or external ?

What do you mean by the words "the drive crashes" ?
And what method have you tried for formatting? I mean, have you tried several ways of formatting or just stick to the one ?
And what is "phase 3" ? 

Thank you all for your response  .
I was already going to use ATA/SATA adapter to test the drive, and then was going to put it in the freezer, but apparently he got scared of that and started working  .
magic .

But that freezer thing is, actually, interesting. Never heard of that before. Thanks a lot!

So the situation is as follows:

I have an external Hard Drive. The one, which is powered only from USB. It's difficult to tell the model, as it was bought from the Internet as Western Digital 500GB, but when delivered it turned out to be fake ( well it was suprisingly cheap, and should've read the description more carefully). However it worked fine, so it wasn't really a problem. Two weeks ago it suffered an airplane transportation ( i say suffered, because it was transported in the luggage , somewhere in the bottom of the bag), and after that it doesn't mount in to OS.
When plugged in,  it starts working, so the power is supplied, but the OS doesn't react. Tried using different cords, the effect is identical. Also tried on Windows Vista, and then tried manually mounting the drive on PC-BSD OS. Both systems couldn't detect it. Other drives mount normally.

I suppose, that it's not really possible to make it work normally. 
Are there may be ways to, at least, extract the data from it ?

Yeah, thanks, i know. It is also included into BackTrack, and will be included in Matriux too. It's just curiosity 

Here the developers name some differences from other distros :
Matriux vs. BackTrack

Sorry, my English is not so good. I meant programs similar to Maltego.