dd if=linux.iso of=/dev/sdb should be /dev/sda instead. End up erasing my external hard drive with all my photos, instead of creating a bootable pendrive. rec

dd if=linux.iso of=/dev/sdb should be /dev/sda instead. End up erasing my external hard drive with all my photos, instead of creating a bootable pendrive. recovered all the images using Foremost [1], fresh out of image processing and machine learning class, end up writing a image clustering "software" [2] that help me separate the useful images from worthless thumbnails and images that chrome have cached. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_(software) 2 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/groupImg https://github.com/victorqribeiro/groupImg