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Subject: Re: disassembler
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On Friday 27 August 2010 10:27:38 Jim Bryant wrote:
> ah, ok.
> 
> if it's a flash drive, the data may be toast.  depends on how many dead
> cells there are.
> 

Hi,

dd if=/dev/da0 of=/root/temp.mbr bs=512 count=1

Then use objcopy to convert /root/temp.mbr into something that objdump can 
read, and it should disassemble it for you :-)

You might want to look at photorec in ports too.

Good luck.

--HPS