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Active@ Disk-editor by LSoft Technologies Inc.

By Johan van Soest.

Published : 2014-01-30.

Last updated : 2018-11-30.

Active@ Disk Editor is a freeware advanced tool for viewing & editing raw sectors on Physical Disks, Partitions & Files content in hexadecimal form.
Unique features

Completely free
Regular updates
Eliminates data location calculation errors
Reduces time to find data
Automatically translates data for multiple file systems into user-readable format

More than a basic hex editor

Features overview

Drive Support: Hard disk drives; SSD & USB Disks; Partitions & Volumes; Files

Hyperlinks: MFT records link to first cluster in data run; MBR links to partitions.

Template Driven Data Displays

Drive Images Support: vmWare; dd images; MS Virtual PC; DIM support (disk image + metadata)

Built-in File Editor: All features are self-contained; No plug-ins needed

File preview many file formats: Word; RTF; Excel; CSV; Text; JPG; BMP; TIFF; PNG

Active@ Disk-editor by LSoft Technologies Inc.

Get the program here. There is also more information about the program.

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