It was 2 AM, and Leo regretted everything.
The software beeped pleasantly. Estimated time: 4 hours, 22 minutes. PC Disk Clone X 11.5
One line:
Drive Z: appeared in File Explorer. Inside: all 2 TB of the server’s data, plus a new folder at the root. It was 2 AM, and Leo regretted everything
The mouse cursor vanished. You can’t cancel a clone in progress. That’s the first rule of disk cloning. Page 4 of the manual. You did read the manual, didn’t you, Leo? The bar hit 100%. A chime played—the same pleasant chime from the beginning, but now it sounded like a nursery rhyme after a nightmare. Clone complete. Secondary copy stored on: YOUR LOCAL MACHINE (C:). Leo stared. The software had cloned the source drive onto his own C drive. His personal laptop. The one with his tax returns, his photos, his private emails. Would you like to mount the clone as drive Z: ? [YES] He didn’t click. But the drive mounted anyway. One line: Drive Z: appeared in File Explorer
Leo opened it.
His phone buzzed. A text from his coworker, Jen: “You using Disk Clone X 11.5? Don’t. It has a mind of its own. Literally.”