A little bit better – Showing the MBR

Here is the java code to read MBR out:

package com.peterswing.mbr;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

import com.peterswing.CommonLib;

public class ReadMBR {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			InputStream in = new FileInputStream("/Users/peter/workspace/GKD/vm/dlxlinux/hd10meg.img");

			in.skip(0x1be);
			for (int x = 0; x < 4; x++) {
				byte partition[] = new byte[16];
				IOUtils.read(in, partition, 0, 16);
				printPartitionTable(partition);
			}
			IOUtils.closeQuietly(in);
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public static String getPartitionTable(byte partition[]) {
		String s = "";
		s += "status         : " + partition[0] + "\n";
		s += "chs (first)    : " + hex(partition[1]) + " " + hex(partition[2]) + " " + hex(partition[3]) + "\n";
		s += "partition type : " + hex(partition[4]) + "\n";
		s += "chs (last)     : " + hex(partition[5]) + " " + hex(partition[6]) + " " + hex(partition[7]) + "\n";
		s += "lba (first)    : " + hex(partition[8]) + " " + hex(partition[9]) + " " + hex(partition[10]) + " " + hex(partition[11]) + "\n";
		s += "no. of sector  : " + hex(partition[12]) + " " + hex(partition[13]) + " " + hex(partition[14]) + " " + hex(partition[15]) + "\n";
		s += "size           : " + CommonLib.convertFilesize(CommonLib.getInt(new byte[] { partition[12], partition[13], partition[14], partition[15] }, 0) * 512) + "\n";
		return s;
	}

	public static void printPartitionTable(byte partition[]) {
		System.out.println(getPartitionTable(partition));
	}

	public static String hex(int x) {
		return Integer.toHexString(x & 0xff);
	}
}