| Developer(s) | Maël Hörz |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2003 |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Object Pascal |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Hex editor |
| License | Proprietary (Freeware) |
| Website | mh-nexus.de/hxd |
HxD is a hex editor, disk editor, and memory editor developed by Maël Hörz for Windows. It can open files larger than 4 GiB and open and edit the raw contents of disk drives, as well as display and edit the memory used by running processes. Among other features, it can calculate various checksums, compare files, or shred files.[1]
Embarcadero Dev-C is a new and improved fork (sponsored by Embarcadero) of Bloodshed Dev-C and Orwell Dev-C. It is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and code editor for the C/C programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as its compiler. I need the following code to format the hex side of the form. I have two richtextbox's the one on the left is hex the one on the right is ascii. There are two buttons. One updates the hex side to the ascii side the other updates the ascii side too the hex side.
HxD is distributed as freeware and is available in multiple languages of which the English version is the first in the category of coding utilities on Download.com.[2] The c't magazine has featured HxD in several issues and online-specials.[3][4]
Features[edit]
- Disk editor (both Windows 9x/NT and up)
- Memory editor
- Data-folding to show/hide memory sections.
- Data inspector
- Converts current data into many types, for editing and viewing
- Open source plugin-framework to extend with new, custom type converters
- Multiple files are presented using a mixture of tabbed document interface and multiple document interface.
- Large files up to 8 EiB can be loaded and edited.
- Partial file loading for performance.
- Search and replace for several data types (including Unicode-strings, floats and integers).
- Calculation and checking of checksums and hashes.
- File utility operations
- File shredder for safe file deletion.
- Splitting or concatenating of files.
- File compare (only byte by byte)
- Importing and exporting of hex files (Intel HEX, Motorola S-record)
- Exporting of data to several formats
- Source code (C, Pascal, Java, C#, VB.NET, PureBasic)
- Formatted output (plain text, HTML, RTF, TeX)
- Statistical view: Graphical representation of the character distribution.
- Available in 32 and 64-bit (including memory editor)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'HxD - Freeware Hex Editor and Disk Editor'. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^'download.com: Top Coding Utilities'. download.com. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ^'heise.de: Grundausstattung (2), Themen-Special im heise Software-Verzeichnis'. heise.de. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ^'heise.de: Unsere Besten (3), Themen-Special im heise Software-Verzeichnis'. heise.de. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
External links[edit]
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.
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.
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.
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Features
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- Available as a portable and installable edition
- RAM-Editor
- To edit the main memory
- Memory sections are tagged with 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, RegEdit, ...
- 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
Version 2.5.0.0 (February 11, 2021)What's new? OS Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8 or 10 Version 1.7.7.0 (April 3, 2009)What's new? OS Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, or 7 License
HxD is free of charge for private and commercial use. Selling HxD is not allowed. Distributing it as part of magazine addon CDs / DVDs / other media or putting it on download portals or private websites is allowed and welcome. For details, please see the HxD License.
What's new
Notes
Disk-Editor
To use the disk editor under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 and higher you have to be an administrator or have the appropriate privileges.
Starting with Vista you need to manually unmount the hard disk to successfully write to it, or in other words: make sure the disk you edit has no mounted file system. More details in this forum thread. A system drive (the one where Windows is installed on) cannot be written to while Windows is running. In order to still accomplish that, you will have to execute HxD from a boot CD/DVD like PartBE or VistaPE and edit the system disk from there.
Windows NT 4
If the RAM-editor doesn't show any processes under Windows NT 4 you most likely don't have PSAPI.DLL installed on your system. You can get it from Microsoft (PSAPI.DLL Download) and copy the DLL into the %windir%System directory.
HxD was only tested for Windows NT 4 SP 6, though it should work with versions prior to service pack 6.Windown NT 4 SP1 and newer are also supported, if WININET.DLL is added, through IE 3.02 or newer.
Articles about HxD
Translators
Thanks to the translators, HxD is available in many languages.More useful links
- Interesting pages about data recovery, disk structure, boot managers, hex editing, assembler and other low level stuff:
The Starman's Realm
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