WinHex is a comprehensive digital forensics tool widely recognized for its advanced capabilities in data recovery, analysis, and hexadecimal editing. Renowned for its efficiency and precision, WinHex offers a suite of features tailored for professionals in the field of computer forensics and data recovery.

With WinHex, users can delve deep into digital storage media, including hard drives, memory cards, and disk images, to uncover hidden information and recover lost or deleted files. Its intuitive interface facilitates seamless navigation through complex data structures, allowing users to examine and manipulate data at the binary level.

One of WinHex's key strengths lies in its robust set of forensic analysis tools, enabling users to extract valuable evidence from digital artifacts and perform thorough investigations. From extracting metadata to recovering fragmented files, WinHex empowers forensic analysts with the tools needed to uncover insights crucial for legal proceedings and investigative purposes.

Moreover, WinHex offers powerful data editing capabilities, allowing users to modify file contents, repair corrupted data, and perform intricate data transformations with precision. Its support for various file systems and data formats further enhances its versatility, making it a valuable asset for professionals across diverse industries.

WinHex stands as a formidable tool in the realm of digital forensics, renowned for its comprehensive feature set, reliability, and efficiency in data recovery and analysis.

Key Features:

• Hex Editing: Edit binary files in hexadecimal format.
• Disk Editing: Edit physical disks directly for forensic analysis and data recovery.
• Data Recovery: Advanced tools to recover lost or deleted files from damaged storage devices.
• Disk Cloning: Create exact copies of disks for backup or replication purposes.
• File Comparison: Compare files and disk structures to identify differences.
• Checksum Calculation: Calculate and verify checksums for data integrity.
• Encryption: Encrypt and decrypt files and disk sectors for security.
• Programming Tools: Automation and customization capabilities through scripting.
• Templates: Predefined templates for easy editing of specific data types.
• Forensic Integration: Seamlessly integrates with forensic analysis tools for investigations.

Version 17.5

• Program help and user manual updated for v17.5.
• Support for more deeply nested directory trees in Ext*.
• Some clusters of significantly fragmented files in Ext4 were incorrectly contained in idle space as well. This has been fixed.
• Support for VMDK snapshots where the VMDK images are stored in segments, each usually representing 2 GB of the virtual disk. Previously only monolithic VMKDs were supported, i.e. where the entire VMDK image is stored in one file (whether sparse or not).
• Fixed errors in VMDK support in previous preview and beta versions of v17.5.
• Ability to interpret evidence file containers larger than 4 TB.
• Creating the descriptive text file when imaging disks is now optional.
• The option to define the number of extra compression threads when creating .e01 evidence files is no longer hidden.
• Support for NTFS file systems larger than 2³² clusters (which are not supported in Windows 8 and earlier, but perhaps in later versions).
• Improved support for high dpi display settings in Windows (150% and larger), in message boxes, file selection dialogs, info pane, mode buttons, toolbar, progress indicator window, directory browser, and search hit context preview.
• Colored icons for excluded and notable files now displayed with no noticeable delay even when Aero is enabled.
• The file type filter dialog now remembers which categories were expanded.
• Stability of EVTX processing improved.
• Reconstruction of indexed e-mails messages from the indexing database of the Thunderbird email client and output as child objects in the volume snapshot, as part of extraction of embedded data in SQLite databases.
• Exclusion of known SQLite databases from the embedded data extraction if it's know that there is no valuable binary data to be found.
• Improved support for MS Internet Explorer recovery travellog files.
• Windows Registry report and event extraction revised.  
• File type verification updated.
• You can turn off "Extended multi-user coordination" if you are sure to be the only concurrent user of a case and don't need some of the advanced options, for performance benefits in some very few situations.
• Indexes of the new type previously became unusable if the drive letter or path of the case changed. This is no longer the case for existing and newly created indexes in the final version of v17.5.  
• Ability to specify separate virtual output directories for separate file carving runs, for example to distinguish operations of different scopes or for different purposes (e.g. first ordinary sector-level file carving in an entire partition, then byte-level file carving of e-mails in free space).