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It's a common Setup to have a dedicated boot partition at the beginning of your disk. When you ran dd, you probably wrote to your HDD instead of the USB stick, but only as much data as the size of that image. You likely overwrote your bootloader, but no data that was required or loaded after booting.
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@Lisk I booted into a live Linux USB afterwards and the disk was empty so nah
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@Lisk figured
Was about 13-14 years old, on my first laptop, a HP Pavilion G6. I had Ubuntu on it, and tried to write an iso to a USB with dd. Didn't work, so I forgot about it for up to maybe a week, and was playing Minecraft one day when my laptop froze and nothing was responding, so I did a hard reboot.
No operating systems found.
Many tears were shed that day.
Took me maybe 6 months to realize that the "botched" dd probably caused the wipe.
Still don't know why my computer was still running... If anyone thinks that the dd didn't cause it I'm curious what your theory is.
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