WinHex

WinHex is a hexadecimal editor for the Windows operating system. It is used for forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT (Information Technology) security. It allows the user to view files in hexadecimal format.

WinHex features

• A disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read-Only Memory)
  and DVD-ROM (Digital Versatile Disc Read-Only Memory), ZIP, and CompactFlash.
• Native support for FAT12/16/32, exFAT, NTFS (NTFS File System), Ext2/3/4, Next3, CDfs, and UDF (Universal Disk Format) file systems.
• Native support for RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems and dynamic disks.
• A RAM (Random-Access Memory) editor, allowing for access to both physical and virtual memory.
• A data interpreter which understands over 20 data types.
• Ability to repair partition tables and boot sectors.
• The ability to concatenate or split files, including the ability to unify or divide files on odd/even bytes.
• Search and replace functionality.
• Disk cloning under DOS
• Disk imaging and backup functions.
• The ability to perform 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption, checksums, CRC32, and hashes such as MD5 and SHA-1.
• Secure deletion of files, such that no undelete is possible.
• Conversion between binary, hexadecimal ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), Intel hex, and Motorola S.
• Support for files greater than 4 GB in size.

Digital forensics, File recovery, Operating system, Recovery, Software, Software terms