WinHex is a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: inspect and edit all kinds of files, recover deleted files or lost data from hard drives with corrupt file systems or from digital camera cards. Features include:
Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROMDVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash, ...
Powerful directory browser for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDF
RAM editor, providing access to other processes' virtual memory
Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types
Editing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)
Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words
Analyzing and comparing files
Particularly flexible search and replace functions
Disk cloning, with a specialist license also under DOS
Drive imagesbackups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)
Programming interface (API) and scripting (professionalspecialist licenses only)
128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)
Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy
Import all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex values
Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S
Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)
Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.
Supports files 4 GB. Very fast. Easy to use. Extensive online help.
