PIX Devices with a Floppy Drive

Execute the rawrite.exe file on your PC and answer the questions on the screen using the correct password recovery filename for the first question. Type a or the appropriate drive letter for the floppy for the second question. Pressing ENTER for the third question causes the floppy disk to be formatted and written to. The screen looked like the following:

RaWrite 1.2 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette
Enter source file name: np62.bin
Enter destination drive: a:
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press -ENTER- :

Insert the PIX Password Lockout Utility disk into the floppy drive of the PIX.

Push the Reset button on the lower-left corner of the PIX front panel. The PIX will reboot from the floppy and print a message to the console. The message for 6.2 looked like this:

Rebooting....
Cisco Secure PIX Firewall BIOS (3.6)
Booting Floppy
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Cisco Secure PIX Firewall floppy loader (3.0) #0: Wed Mar 27 11:02:14 PST 2002
Reading installation media......
Cisco Secure PIX Firewall password tool (3.0) #0: Wed Mar 27 11:02:16 PST 2002
Flash=i28F640J5 @ 0x300
BIOS Flash=AT29C257 @ 0xd8000

Do you wish to erase the passwords? [yn] y
The following lines will be removed from the configuration:
        enable password toXbRG4.WPapU9O3 encrypted
        passwd 2KFQnbNIdI.2KYOU encrypted

Do you want to remove the commands listed above from the configuration? [yn] y
Passwords and aaa commands have been erased.

You’re prompted to answer two questions. Before answering y to both, eject the floppy disk because the system will reboot when you press ENTER for the second question.

There should be no enable password. The Telnet password is cisco.

In Configuration mode, use passwd new_password to create a new Telnet password and use enable password new_enable_password to create an enable password, and then save your changes with the write memory command.