How to Factory Reset Cisco Switch

[@alexfischer4412]

Bro youre the goat. Have to use this for school and no one showed us how. Thank you so much. Im subscribing

[@frankjakobsen5980]

Great! You provided exactly the information I needed, without any bla-bla, straight to the point :-)

[@johnpowell3500]

Top man building a CCNA home lab and bought 2nd hand switch of eBay just followed this works fine.

[@Lava-bc7ez]

Thanks man, found 2 switches that needed to be reset and this helped!!!

[@syedm.hharis3009]

Simple and straight. Thank you

[@cristhiancamberos]

very helpful and atraight to the point. Saved my ass

[@offshoretechie]

Great simple tutorial. thanks.

[@lynn_patterson]

Thanks. It works great on a Catalyst 2960-S

[@Kevin-r7f4u]

I'm confused why this video shows how to do a factory reset through the command line (console access) while other videos simply just show that you need to hold the power button until the lights start flashing ...are both methods valid or it depends on the specific model? I'm new to all of this, thanks.

[@SOGUIREL]

Thanks sir

[@kosmattt]

Thank You! Works with ME 3400 :)

[@stevedixon4179]

Mine keeps coming up to a YES> prompt. No switch prompt. Any suggestions. Catalyst 2960X

[@danielelauri]

Thank you man !

[@zanield6195]

Thank you :)

[@jayjaytp10]

Thank you!

[@ShoaibAkhtar-o1z]

In my case it only showing boot option there is no flash_init option showing to me what can i do now?

[@Kevin-r7f4u]

will this work on a cisco router also?

[@1stnamebr406]

How to delete them if they are read-only? Anybody can answer?

[@johnanonanon]

Sadly didn't work on my 3560-cx. Whilst I released after the password-recovery mechanism is enabled, it didn't interrupt the boot. Luckily I know the password for my switch. And yes, my console cable is working fine.

[@johnanonanon]

Not sure which one of these changes made a difference, but I got it working: 1. Power Off 2. Hold in Mode button 3. Power On, whilst still holding Mode button 4. Wait for 'password-recovery mechanism is enabled' message 5. Wait a few MORE seconds and THEN release the Mode button

[@gurugamer8632]

what does flash_init do

[@arbazshaikh6157]

Unable to type flash_init

[@networkverge507]

Might be a bad console. Are you able to type any commands?