This week, you are going to build on the program from last week. Use the same file from last week. You will be extracting the first partition entry from the master boot record that is contained in the file. The first partition entry starts at offset 0x1BE and ends at 0x1CD. Pull that chunk of bytes out of the file provided and send it to the server software that you will write. The server will listen for the chunk of data and print out the status of the drive, the partition type and the starting address of the partition as an integer.

You can refer to Wikipedia (Links to an external site.) for additional details about offsets within the master boot record and partition table for the pieces of information you are looking for.

As with previous weeks, include an attribution block at the top of the programs you are writing. Document what you are doing in comments, use variable names that help with your documentation and provide a comment preamble before any function that you write.