WinHex for Windows

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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: you can 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-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, etcNative support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDFBuilt-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disksRAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memoryData interpreter, knowing 20 data typesEditing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/wordsAnalyzing and comparing filesParticularly flexible search and replace functionsDisk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)Programming interface (API) and scripting128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacyImport all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex valuesConvert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola SCharacter sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.Supports files >4 GBWinHex 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: you can 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-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, etcNative support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDFBuilt-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disksRAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memoryData interpreter, knowing 20 data typesEditing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/wordsAnalyzing and comparing filesParticularly flexible search and replace functionsDisk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)Programming interface (API) and scripting128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacyImport all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex valuesConvert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola SCharacter sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.Supports files >4 GBDisk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, etcNative support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDFBuilt-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disksRAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memoryData interpreter, knowing 20 data typesEditing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/wordsAnalyzing and comparing filesParticularly flexible search and replace functionsDisk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)Programming interface (API) and scripting128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacyImport all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex valuesConvert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola SCharacter sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.Supports files >4 GBDisk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, etcNative support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDFBuilt-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disksRAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memoryData interpreter, knowing 20 data typesEditing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/wordsAnalyzing and comparing filesParticularly flexible search and replace functionsDisk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)Programming interface (API) and scripting128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacyImport all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex valuesConvert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola SCharacter sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.Supports files >4 GB