WinHex 16.3

3.2 out of 5 stars 3.2 (359 votes)

(December 15, 2011)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Shareware; $45.00 / 58,205 downloads

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 template editing, drive cloning and imaging, encryption. It allows to concatenate, split, unify, analyze, convert, and compare files. Flexible search and replace functions are included, also a data interpreter and a sophisticated undo and backup mechanism. The disk editor supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, CDFS, UDF, Ext2, Ext3, and Reiser volumes as well as physical disks. The RAM editor can prove particularly useful for debugging purposes.

Reviews of WinHex

  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    Nightside

    Reviewing 16.0 (Apr 27, 2011)

    Nyuck

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    Plumber

    Reviewing 15.8 (Oct 11, 2010)

    Uh... $45? You need to stop paying attention to way-out-of-date listings. Here are the current prices for WinHex, converted to USD courtesy of Yahoo! Finance:

    Personal: $53.34 (37.73 EUR)
    Professional: $96.98 (69.90 EUR)
    Specialist: $271.78 (195.90 EUR)

    I give it a 3 because the usability could use a huge boost.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    darkwzrd1

    Reviewing 15.7 (Jul 29, 2010)

    Since when is $45.00 dollars a Kings Ransom?

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    emanresU deriseD

    Reviewing 15.5 (Dec 21, 2009)

    It costs a king's ransom and the interface needs work and the author is a bit arrogant, but nonetheless it's by far the best hex editor going.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    gehtnix

    Reviewing 15.2 (Jan 16, 2009)

    IMHO still the best tool for cloning hard drives, i must admit that is the main reason i use it for, this and some hex editing. i rate it 5 because of it's unbelievable features.

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