A very diffcult problem !!!!!!!!!

eng_ahmedas

Hi All
How r u all ??? I wish u r in a good health. I have a very serious problem and i wish u could find solution to it.

I have Catalyst 2950 Switch and the problem that its console is damaged and one of my student erase its IOS.

Can anyone tell me how to recover the IOS Image ???????

Thanks in advance

brAun

first u need an back up IOS and perform the password recovery and copy the back up ios back to the switch.

marlon23

You can use your aux port, at least I think

darwinism

Typically switches dont have AUX ports.

Danman32

Without a console port, I don't see how you can manage the switch any more than you can drive a car if the car is locked and all the key slots to the locks are broken.

Except if the flash is removable and you can find a way to externally transplant the IOS to it.

marlon23

yeah switch...

this one definitely needs some service it shouldn't be so hard to repair, even if your console is damaged electronically.

hectorjhrdz

you can take the flash from another sw and put it.

i can´t remember if the 2950 has more than one flash slots. if yes, just take the empty flash and put it into the second slot of another device rtr or sw and then perform the copy or download the image from a tftp server.



good luck

routingbyrumor

Hi! no one mentioned Xmodem. I was able to do that we I wiped out my IOS as well. It takes some time but works.

routingbyrumor

Opps didn't read carefully his Console port is damaged so Xmodem would be out of the question.