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Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

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Re: Fat Fingers

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda

See the error?

I learned a lot that Halloween, on how one should never try to manually clone partitions to a new SSD...

In my defense, it was wrangling an NTFS that was "corrupt/dirty" according to all the linux tools I had access to (clonezilla, gparted live), and that windows utilities said "nah, wrong size mate" to.

It only cost me the one true working copy of that authentec fingerprint reader driver for Windows 7...

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