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Nighthawk XR500 Won’t Factory Reset
Hello, Last night I decided to update my Nighthawk XR500 Gaming Router firmware, while two minutes into the process, internet from the ISP side dropped and stayed out for ~12 hours. Now my router ...
As soon as you sent this I have figured it out.
The steps had me enter and select "cd desktop" and I am such a numb-skull that I had it stored in a folder on the desktop instead of the actual image on the desktop.
Once I put the image on the desktop it was successful and I am now up and working.Thank you everyone who contributed to helping me today!
Glad it was a simple fix!
I'd make a backup in case you have to reflash it and restore it again
