Cisco 3560 switch Password Reset and Recovery Procedure

Cisco 3560 switch Password Reset and Recovery Procedure

3560 password recovery enabled procedures
Before you start you will need a Cisco console cable, which has a DB9 and RJ45 on the other end, plug in the RJ45 to the Console port on your cisco, then plug in the DB9 to a USB-serial converter such as the TripLite USA-19HS, use Putty to connect to serial, usually the speed is 9600 or 19200 baud, N,8,1
Pull the power cord.  Now plug it back in, then Push the green button in front, while plugging in power, then hold it down while Cisco starts up, You will see a message on your console window indicating that you are in password recovery mode. Let go of the button.

type this for password recovery.
switch: flash_init
switch: load_helper
switch: rename flash:config.text flash:config.old
switch: boot
after the switch boots and you are at the enable prompt, type this:
switch# rename flash:config.old flash:config.text
Switch# copy flash:config.text system:running-config
If you do it wrong you will see this:
switch: dir flash:/
unable to stat flash://: invalid argument 
change the password now
switch:  conf term
switch:  enable password level 15 MySecretPassword123

Some Useful Commands

switch: dir flash:/
Directory of flash://

    2  -rwx  676       <date>               vlan.dat
    3  -rwx  1929      <date>               private-config.text
  464  drwx  192       <date>               c3560-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE7
  463  -rwx  26639     <date>               config.text
  502  -rwx  3096      <date>               multiple-fs

544256 bytes available (15454720 bytes used)


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