Portable HxD 1.7.7 : A Free Hex Editor and Disk Editor

Posted on the July 3rd, 2009 under Others by Kunn

Portable Free Apps : Portable HxD 1.7.7 : A Free Hex Editor and Disk Editor

Portable HxD 1.7.7 : A Free Hex Editor and Disk Editor

HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

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.

Some features of HxD:

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, …