Cisco Catalyst 3560-CX Factory Reset?

[keithhampshire]

I have searched the internet trying to find a way to do a factory reset on the

Catalyst 3560-CX switch

and I found NO luck.

I am consoled holding the "Mode" button down while switch boots and get to the "switch :" prompt. I type

flash_init

and all I get is this (see attached). Nothing workings. This all started when I configured a password for "line con 0" login local but no username. So, to test I logged out and now it asks me for a username. I never configured a username so I'm stuck-like-chuck.

How can I do a factory reset on these little switch?

[Seb Rupik · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

After

flash_init 

  what is the output if you type just

dir ?

Does it list flash as a drive, if so what is the output of:

dir flash:

cheers,

Seb.

[keithhampshire]

May be on to something. Stay tuned.....

[Seb Rupik]

Looks good, that should prompt you for initial setup once it has booted.

[keithhampshire]

That did work! Good to go. Thanks.

[aminataniang]

Hi here, i have the same problem and did the same thing you asked but the boot: command is not working. Can you help please? Here the screen

[keithhampshire]

Tried typing "reset" as well but failed and is still prompting for a username.

[Uriel_Muruato]

Alguien ya soluciono el como resetear el switch por completo?

[EnricoSavazzi]

I am using a C3650CX with firmware 15.2(4).E2. It required just minor changes to the procedure described above:

delete flash:/config.text
delete flash:/vlan.dat
reload

After reloading it attempted several times to download files from a TFTP server, which took some time, but eventually displayed the switch> prompt.