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-ROM & DVD, 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 images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives) 

- Programming interface (API) and scripting (professional & specialist 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.