Edit hex with HxD Hex Editor
Reviewed by beth
HxD Hex Editor is a powerful software to help you edit hex. It is very easy to use. In addition to this, it can edit raw disk and modify main memory (RAM), handles files of any size. It has simple and easy-to-use interface. Let you use it very simple.
Pros:
- Instant opening regardless of file-size
- Have internet update checker
- Have overwrite or insert mode
Cons:
- Have small bugs
- Cannot open locked files
Benefits:
HxD Hex Editor includes efficient handling of huge files, fast and flexible search & replace, file comparison, checksum & hash generation, exporting to several formats (source code, formatted output like HTML, hex files for EEPROM programming), a file shredder, a file splitter/joiner, and graphical statistics.
HxD Hex Editor's Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.
System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
* Windows Server 2008
* Windows Vista
* Windows NT /4 /SP /6
* Windows XP
* Windows 2003
* Windows 2000
* Windows ME
* Windows NT
* Windows 98
* Windows 95
Interface:
HxD Hex Editor have easy to use interface with modern icons. The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.
Conclusion:
This program can save your computer many times. Most notably allowing you to reconstruct the boot sector of my hard drive. It is invaluable when trying to recover data off of failed disks and is generally one of the applications I install first when I reinstall Windows.It also can inspect and edit files, main memory, disks/disk images and their structure.
Freeware Hex Editor and Disk Editor
HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor including raw disk editing, modifying foreign RAM and handling files of any size.
Its clear interface offers searching/replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and more.
Editing works like in a text editor with functions streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.
For example you can view a drive just as one stream, can open it under Windows 9x or Windows NT+, undo, search, save, export or whatever you could do with a file.
There is no sector-limited editing that gets in your way. The same holds true for the file size (also > 4 GB), which doesn't affect editing speed and still supports undo.
Or have a look at the RAM-editor that supports data-folding on every memory section and hides by default inaccessible memory, for a better overview but keeps the real offsets.
HxD also features a reliable checksum generator.
Main features of HxD:
Instant opening regardless of file-size (>4GB is no problem: opening, editing are very fast)
Fast searching: forward, backwards or from beginning
Replace function (fast even for millions of edits)
Search and replace support Unicode, Ansi-text and Hex-values
Disk-Editor: RAW reading and writing of disks and drives (hard disks, floppy disks, USB-disks, CD-ROM, ...) for Win9x, WinNT and higher
RAM-Editor: can read and write virtual memory of other processes
Data-folding for better overview in RAM-Editor
Exporting of data to source code (Pascal, C, Java) or as formatted output (plain text, HTML, Richtext, TeX) or to hex formats:
Motorola S19 Records, Motorola S28 Records, Motorola S37 Records, 16 Bit Intel Hex, 20 Bit Intel Hex, 32 Bit Intel Hex
Checksum-Generator: Checksum-8, Checksum-16, Checksum-24, Checksum-32, CRC-16, CRC-16 CCITT, CRC-32, Custom CRC, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD-2, MD-4, MD5
Insertion of byte patterns
File shredder for safe file deletion
Splitting or concatenating of files
File compare (simple)
Statistical view: Graphical representation of the character distribution. Helps to identify the data-type of a selection.
Support for ANSI, DOS/IBM-ASCII, EBCDIC and Macintosh charsets
Byte grouping (1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 bytes packed together in one column)
Hex only or text only mode
Progress-window displays on long time operations (shows remaining time and has a cancel-button)
Unlimited undo
Modified data is highlighted
Internet update checker
Easy to use interface with modern icons
Ghost caret: displayed around the corresponding character/hex value on the inactive column, the caret is placed on the active column
Goto address
Printing
Overwrite or Insert Mode
Cut, Copy, Paste Insert, Paste Write
Clipboard support for other hex editors (Visual Studio/Visual C++, WinHex, HexWorkshop, ...)
Bookmarks: Ctrl+Shift+Number(0-9) sets a bookmark, Ctrl+Number(0-9) goes to a bookmark
Navigating to nibbles with Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right
Flicker free display and fast drawing
What's New in This Release:
Enhancements
Backup files are now created such that all meta-data associated to a file, like alternate data streams, file attributes or time stamps, is preserved. Also instead of replacing the file extension with .bak, now .bak is appended thus preserving the file extension.
RAM-Editor detects when a process was terminated and refreshes the display to show only one folded region that encompasses the whole range from 0x0 to 0xFFFFFFFF. This fixes also issues that appeared when a process was still opened in the RAM-Editor after being terminated.
The change log displayed in the Update-Checker window is now formatted with indentations, bullet lists and makes links clickable.
Changes
The file-dialog of the file-shredder no longer dereferences links to prevent you from accidentally shredding the link-target when you really meant to shredder the link itself. (Confusing it the other way round is less of a problem, since a link can be easily recreated). Additionally this change now ...
