BeetleChunks Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) I wrote a program today that will read a physical drive directly. I read the first 50,000 bytes into a txt file, starting at sector zero. I see some text, but also a lot of graphics characters and symbols. I have googled what this could be, but haven't really found anything. I know its some sort of encoding of my data, but I'm not sure. My hopes are that its something that can be made sense of. I have seen some of this from assembly, however I'm still not sure what I'm looking at. I will post some of the out put below. So the question is, what is it. If someone could give me some insight or a link, I would be thankful. I was trying to take a look at the mbr and was not expecting the weird graphics. I'm mostly curious if this can be converted to something comprehensible. Thanks, Beetle Excerpt: Sorry for the excerpt being so large. ÖóÆ÷ þÿÿþÿÿ ®êB% Uª ëXBSD 4.4 @ ø ÿ ®êB%* € )WNO ACCESS FAT32 ú1ÀŽÐ¼ |ûŽØè ^ƒÆ» ü¬„Àt´Íëõ0äÍÍ Non-system disk Press any key to reboot UªRRaA rrAa…ÎI ª³ Uª ëXBSD 4.4 @ ø ÿ ®êB%* € )WNO ACCESS FAT32 ú1ÀŽÐ¼ |ûŽØè ^ƒÆ» ü¬„Àt´Íëõ0äÍÍ Non-system disk Press any key to reboot UªRRaA rrAaY• Uª øÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ& ÿÿÿ( ÿÿÿ* + , ÿÿÿ. / 0 ÿÿÿ2 ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Edited January 5, 2014 by BeetleChunks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 If you want a breakdown of it, I can assist. But I will only do so via hangout/video call. PM me if interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no42 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc976786.aspx http://starman.vertcomp.com/asm/mbr/STDMBR.htm http://www.bydavy.com/2012/01/lets-decrypt-a-master-boot-record/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 ^ That will work for the first 512 bytes :P Good place to start. Boot code, partition tables, etc. Weeeeeee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeetleChunks Posted January 6, 2014 Author Share Posted January 6, 2014 midnitesnake, thank you for the links. They answered all my questions. Mr-protocol, thanks for offering up your support and talking to me about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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