HxD

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 Freeware Windows hex editor handling files of any size

 Author:   Maël Hörz
 Homepage: http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
 Family:   HexEditorFamily
 Platform: Windows
 License:  Freeware
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Available as a portable and installable edition
RAM-Editor
- To edit the main memory
- Memory sections are tagged with data-folds
Disk-Editor (Hard disks, floppy disks, ZIP-disks, USB flash drives, CDs, ...)
- RAW reading and writing of disks and drives
- for Win9x, WinNT? and higher
Instant opening regardless of file-size
- Up to 8EB; opening and editing is very fast
Liberal but safe file sharing with other programs
Flexible and fast searching/replacing for several data types
- Data types: text (including Unicode), hex-values, integers and floats
- Search direction: Forward, Backwards, All (starting from the beginning)
File compare (simple)
View data in Ansi, DOS, EBCDIC and Macintosh character sets
Checksum-Generator: Checksum, CRCs, Custom CRC, SHA-1, SHA-512, MD5, ...
Exporting of data to several formats
- Source code (Pascal, C, Java, C#, VB.NET)
- Formatted output (plain text, HTML, Richtext, TeX)
- Hex files (Intel HEX, Motorola S-record)
Insertion of byte patterns
File tools
- File shredder for safe file deletion
- Splitting or concatenating of files
Basic data analysis (statistics)
- Graphical representation of the byte/character distribution
- Helps to identify the data type of a selection
Byte grouping
- 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 bytes packed together into one column
"Hex only" or "text only"-modes
Progress-window for lengthy operations
- Shows the remaining time
- Button to cancel
Modified data is highlighted
Unlimited undo
"Find updates..."-function
Easy to use and modern interface
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
- Crl+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