Cisco Router Password Recovery Procedure

Sometimes you lost your router password, or you work as network administrator in new places, that no one knows the password of your new company router. Here the procedure for recover the password.

1. Connect to your router through console
2. Power off your router
3. Power on while press the ctrl-break key until you get romon
4. Type confreg 0x2142 at romon
romon>confreg 0x2142
5. Type reset to reboot the router
romon>reset
6. Type no when router prompt to using automatic configuration
7. Type enable to get into configuration mode
Router>enable
Router#
8. Type copy start run. When you sho run, you will gte the old configuration
Router#copy start run
9. Change line vty password, console password, and enable password
Router(config)#ena sec cisco
Router(config)#line console 0
Router(config-line)#line vty 0 4
Router(config-line)#login
Router(config-line)#password cisco
Router(config)#line con 0
Router(config-line)#pass cisco
10. Change configuration register to 0x2102
Router(config)#config-register 0x2102
11. Quit from configuration mode then save configuration
Router#copy run start
or
Router#wr mem