WinHex is in its core 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 (depending on the license type):

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, Next3Ž, 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 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 (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)

Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)

Programming interface (API) and scripting

256-bit AES 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. Extensive online help.