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I can't even remember how I did this, but overwriting the partition table on the main production server at our small startup (back when "the server" would usually live on the premises of the startup). I remember my boss starting to hyperventilate from panic while I reconstructed it from memory / notes, and all the filesystems came back and he calmed down.
Same job, they gave me a little embedded-systems unit for me to use to build a prototype on. I hooked it up, nothing worked. I brought it back to them.
Hey, this one doesn't work.
Huh... that's weird, it was working before. Did you break it?
I don't think so. Can I have one that works?
They literally told me, as they were handing me the second one: Okay, here's another one. Don't break it.
I figured it out literally seconds after breaking the second one... I was hooking it up to 12 volts of power when it needed 5. Second dead computer. Explaining that and that I needed a third one now was fun.
Had something similar several years ago: prototype stopped working for some reason, one of the hardware engineers and I were troubleshooting on a second prototype, and we exploded a large capacitor... The rest of the team were not amused that we destroyed 2 out of 3 working prototypes within 10 minutes.