Free hex editor 1.16 software for windows

HxD Hex Editor 1.7.7.0 is a unique and extremely useful tool for programmers. It is actually designed to inspect and edit files, main memory, disks/disk images and their structure, using a simple and modern interface. You can employ it to analyze big log files, patch ROM files for emulators, repair disk structures, validate data or search for game cheats. Features of HxD include 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.

For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default.
Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations.

Major Features:

1. Available as a portable and installable edition
2. RAM-Editor
   • To edit the main memory
   • Memory sections are tagged with data-folds
3. 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
4. Instant opening regardless of file-size
   • Up to 8EB; opening and editing is very fast
5. Liberal but safe file sharing with other programs
6. 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)
7. File compare (simple)
8. View data in Ansi, DOS, EBCDIC and Macintosh character sets
9. Checksum-Generator: Checksum, CRCs, Custom CRC, SHA-1, SHA-512, MD5, ...
10. 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)
11. Insertion of byte patterns
12. File tools
    • File shredder for safe file deletion
    • Splitting or concatenating of files
13. Basic data analysis (statistics)
    • Graphical representation of the byte/character distribution
    • Helps to identify the data type of a selection
14. Byte grouping
    • 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 bytes packed together into one column
15. "Hex only" or "text only"-modes
16. Progress-window for lengthy operations
    • Shows the remaining time
    • Button to cancel
17. Modified data is highlighted
18. Unlimited undo
19. "Find updates..."-function
20. Easy to use and modern interface
21. Goto address
22. Printing
23. Overwrite or insert mode
24. Cut, copy, paste insert, paste write
25. Clipboard support for other hex editors
    • Visual Studio/Visual C++, WinHex, HexWorkshop, ...
26. Bookmarks
    • Ctrl+Shift+Number (0-9) sets a bookmark
    • Ctrl+Number (0-9) goes to a bookmark
27. Navigating to nibbles with Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right
28. Flicker free display and fast drawing

Enhancements: Bug fixes

• Saving files when HxD is closing effectivly works only for the file in the active window.
• If BytesPerRow is larger than a certain amount, characters in the hex editor overlap.
• Opening "My Network Places" in any open or save file dialog could crash HxD, depending on the Windows version. This was due to neutral language identifiers in the VersionInfo which the OS does not generally support.

Requirements: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista

Enhancements: Full Unicode support in file and folder names. Bit-level binary editor added; workspace size optimizations.