Some raid controllers store the raid config on the drives, and will sometimes erase the disk. Not only to the zero the MBR/Partition table (first 512 bytes) they zero the start of the partition table as well! Let's look at some ways to recover from that situation using dd and Linux.

This is the first video on the enterprise channel! This is one of the videos too crazy for the main channel. Sorry for the shaky cam, but it's the content that counts. And using dd to recover a partition is really, really brain-melting.

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