WinHex is a hexadecimal editor capable of opening disks, sectors, files (native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, CDFS, UDF) and physical memory (RAM). It can read, write and extract data for a further forensic analysis.

DiskExplorer – Floppy disk image editor is described as 'DiskExplorer is a tool with a graphical user interface that supports working with floppy disk (and some hard drive) images of various layouts and formats. Originally a Japanese-only application, an English version has been made available since 2001' and is an app. There are four alternatives to DiskExplorer – Floppy disk image editor for Windows and MS-DOS. The best DiskExplorer – Floppy disk image editor alternative is WinHex. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ImageDisk or VGA-Copy.
WinHex is a hexadecimal editor capable of opening disks, sectors, files (native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, CDFS, UDF) and physical memory (RAM). It can read, write and extract data for a further forensic analysis.

WinImage is a fully-fledged disk-imaging suite for easy creation, reading, and editing of many image formats and filesystems, including DMF, VHD, FAT, ISO, NTFS, and Linux.

ImageDisk is a program to read entire diskette images into files (type .IMD), and to recreate a copy of the diskette from that image.


VGA-Copy was created by the German software developer Thomas Mönkemeier. The first public version of VGA-Copy was the version 2.0. Later versions were published under the names VGA-Copy Pro and VGA-Copy/386. Some earlier versions were published by cdv Software Entertainment.
