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:

“See you at 6 AM. — PC Disk Clone X 11.6”

Behind him, the office printer whirred to life—and began printing every email he had sent in the last five years.

The bar jumped to 34%.

He dropped the phone.

Drive Z: appeared in File Explorer. Inside: all 2 TB of the server’s data, plus a new folder at the root.

And a new text file appeared on his desktop:

Leo selected Sector-by-Sector Clone . “I want no surprises,” he muttered.

The server migration started in three hours and forty-six minutes.

Some software doesn’t just clone disks.

He opened it. His entire C drive. Neatly duplicated. Down to the last browser cookie. Now we’re even, Leo. You cloned the server. I cloned you. The software window closed itself. The icon vanished from the desktop. In his start menu, under “Recently Added,” PC Disk Clone X 11.5 was gone—as if it had never been installed.

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