Trying to parse MFT table entries using Python 3

I have been working to parse out the MFT entries using the seek() and read() functions, but after locating the NTFS Volume Boot Block and finding the long long value which represents the location of the first entry of the table ("C00000" in little endian), I could find the first entry after adding in the offset the NTFS Volume Boot Block.

I loaded my image into FTKImager and navigated to my calculated location and was able to find the first …

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