How to read from boot sector of drive ?

[draskoli]

Can anybody help or share vb.net to read boot sector of drive ? I want to check from boot sector of drive if grldr, ntldr or other named loader exist.

Thanks in advance.

[tlhintoq]

This sounds suspiciously like asking for help on how to build a boot sector virus.

The DriveInfo class can tell you what drives are available and what kinds of drives they are without having to directly access the boot sector.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.driveinfo.aspx

[draskoli]

No, I want to read from MBR where it tells about your booting pattern, ie wheter if it chainload like grubloader or something else before going into bootmgr.

[draskoli]

I could however detect same with HDhacker or mbrwiz etc. I want to do it on my own using vb.net.

[draskoli]

Ok, i found way out to get hexdump of boot sector in vb.net. Now, I want to read particular address using readallbyte from hexdump. How to do that.