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henkva, you are correct, those instructions messed up the saved config. I ended up doing a factory reset and am reprogramming everything now. Thanks.
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henkva, you are correct, those instructions messed up the saved config. I ended up doing a factory reset and am reprogramming everything now. Thanks.

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I have a Cisco ASA 5505 I tried resetting the password/doing a password recovery on and followed instructions from these two websites:<br />
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<a href="http://thepracticalsysadmin.com/reset-password-asa5505/" rel="ugc">http://thepracticalsysadmin.com/reset-password-asa5505/</a>
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<a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa72/configuration/guide/trouble.html#wp1049302" rel="ugc">http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa72/configuration/guide/trouble.html#wp1049302</a>
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Now, when the ASA boots up it goes straight to the default configuration. Did I wipe out and lose all the previous settings for this device? I never ran any delete or erase commands.<br />
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When I boot into global configuration and run a <i>dir</i> I see three different .bin files -- two of them I believe are system default images but when I try to set the third .bin file as the boot image it says <i>WARNING: boot variable added, but not a valid image disk0:/asdm-745.bin</i><br />
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Any help to get this thing back up and running would be greatly appreciated, even if the password remains.
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I have a Cisco ASA 5505 I tried resetting the password/doing a password recovery on and followed instructions from these two websites:

http://thepracticalsysadmin.com/reset-password-asa5505/
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa72/configuration/guide/trouble.html#wp1049302

Now, when the ASA boots up it goes straight to the default configuration. Did I wipe out and lose all the previous settings for this device? I never ran any delete or erase commands.

When I boot into global configuration and run a dir I see three different .bin files -- two of them I believe are system default images but when I try to set the third .bin file as the boot image it says WARNING: boot variable added, but not a valid image disk0:/asdm-745.bin

Any help to get this thing back up and running would be greatly appreciated, even if the password remains.

Cisco ASA 5505 - reset password now it only boots to default config

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