When I first started writing hard drive recovery software, many, many, years ago Microsoft file systems were pretty straight forward. It was a simple FAT, with some file entry tables scattered throughout the drive with a few key system components. In addition, the file system was designed to be fairly virtual. In other words, if […]
Black Art Of Data Recovery: BIOS – MBR – Part Two
Let’s take a look at some of the boot code of a pretty standard MBR. The first thing we want to do is a little house keeping, then relocate the code we loaded at 0000:7C1B to 0000:061B. Which is spelled out in the First Part of – The Black Art Of Data Recovery: BIOS, MBR, […]
The Black Art of Data Recovery: BIOS, MBR, VIRUS
Virus programmers, although destructive, were at one time some of the most innovative programmers in the industry. They exploited the very core of an operating system, and could do magic with the BIOS and MBR. The virus writer of present is just some hack script writer who has no understanding of the true nature of […]