Binary editor for MBRs and Partition records

[balanga]

Is there anything like a binary editor for boot and partition records which will translate the values in the areas and show data at various disk addresses?

 

[Phishfry]

I use something like this for viewing raw hex of the disk structure.

dd if=/dev/da0 | hexdump -C | grep SOMETHING

 

[MG]

Not sure what you mean. Fdisk options -b and -f to read or write a partition table in ASCII format. Not binary but bytewise.
I'm still looking for something that can see what's the problem related to this method and fsck inconsistency errors while the disk seems to work anyway.

 

[atax1a]

iirc the open source standard-bearer in this area is Imhex with the right patterns file from https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex-Patterns

there's also a paid option 010 Editor that came recommended from one of our malware-analyst friends