WinHex for Windows

WinHex is a universal HEX editor. As a disk editor you can work with hard disks, floppy disks, CD ROMs, DVDs, ZIPs, Smart Media, Compact Flash memory cards and other media, with support for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, CDFS.

The program also provides access to virtual memory (a kind of RAM-editor) and allows many other operations, including, for example, "cloning" disks or securely deleting confidential information (without the possibility of subsequent recovery).

Main features:

• Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash, ...
• Native support for FAT12/16/32, exFAT, NTFS, Ext2/3/4, Next 3, CDFS, UDF
• Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks
• Various data recovery techniques
• RAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memory
• Data interprete, knowing 20 data types
• Editing data structures using templates
• Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words
• Analysing and comparing files
• Particularly flexible search and replace functions
• Disk cloning
• Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)
• Simple scripting
• 256-bit AES encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)
• Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleaning 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.