WinHex

 

Editorial review

WinHex is a universal hex editor, an excellent tool for computer security and legal expertise (research and collection of evidence, analysis for legal/judicial/forensic purposes). Daily or emergency use: inspection or editing of binary files, recovery of deleted or lost data on corrupt disks. Features (based on license type!) include: Disk editor for hard drives, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash Directory browser supporting FAT12/16/32, exFAT, NTFS, Ext2/ 3/4, Next3, CDFS, UDF Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks Various data recovery techniques RAM editor to change RAM and virtual memory of a process Data interpreter, knows 20 data types Edit with forms (e.g. partitions, boot sectors).