Password Recovery Procedure for the Cisco Router

Password Recovery Procedure for the Cisco Router

Perform these steps in order to recover your password:

1. Switch on the router.
2.   Press ctrl + pausebreak on the keyboard
3. rommon 1>confreg 0x2142    ;in order to boot from Flash.
4.  rommon 1> reset                ;The router reboots, but ignores the saved configuration.
5. Router> enable                      ;You are in enable mode and should see the Router#
6. Router# configure memory or copy startup-config running-config  ;in order to copy the nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) into memory.
7. Warning:  Do not enter copy running-config startup-config or write. These commands erase your startup configuration.
8. Type enable secret 
   

   hostname(config)#enable secret cisco

9. Type config-register
   

   hostname(config)#config-register 0x2102

10. Type write memory  in order to commit the changes.