WinHex installation and use

Table of contents

Download WinHex

Install WinHex

View ready-made disk files

Manually create disk files

create disk file

create partition

Install the bootloader

view disk

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Download WinHex

Download link:

WinHex: Hex Editor & Disk Editor, Computer Forensics & Data Recovery Software

Install WinHex

1). After the download is complete, the winhex.zip file will appear. Unzip the file and place it in a suitable location. The picture shows the contents of winhex.zip.

2). After the decompression is completed, open the winhex.exe file directly as an administrator.

View ready-made disk files

        Disk files can be created by kvm, vmware, virtualbox and other software, but self-disk files in vmdk, qcow2 and other formats need to be converted to raw format.

[root@zyq images]# /home/zyq/qemu-img convert -p -O raw generic.qcow2 generic.raw
    (100.00/100%)
[root@zyq images]# 
[root@zyq images]# ll generic.* -h
-rw------- 1 root root  21G Apr  6 08:54 generic.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  20G Apr  6 17:49 generic.raw
[root@zyq images]# ll generic.*   
-rw------- 1 root root 21478375424 Apr  6 08:54 generic.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21474836480 Apr  6 17:49 generic.raw

View converted disk files

Manually create disk files

1. create disk file

   [root@zyq tmp]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.img bs=512 count=100000
   100000+0 records in
   100000+0 records out
   51200000 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0909236 s, 563 MB/s
   
   [root@zyq tmp]# ll test.img  
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51200000 Apr  7 09:00 test.img
   
   [root@zyq tmp]# ll test.img -h
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49M Apr  7 09:00 test.img
   

2. create partition

   [root@zyq tmp]# fdisk test.img
   Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.2).
   
   Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
   Be careful before using the write command.
   
   Device does not contain a recognized partition table
   Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xfd823fb1.
   
   Command (m for help): n
   Partition type:
      p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
      e   extended
   Select (default p): 
   Using default response p
   Partition number (1-4, default 1): 
   First sector (2048-99999, default 2048): 
   Using default value 2048
   Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-99999, default 99999): 
   Using default value 99999
   Partition 1 of type Linux and of size 47.8 MiB is set
   
   Command (m for help): w
   The partition table has been altered!
   
   Syncing disks.
   
   
   [root@zyq tmp]# partprobe test.img
   [root@zyq tmp]# fdisk test.img -l
   
   Disk test.img: 51 MB, 51200000 bytes, 100000 sectors
   Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disk label type: dos
   Disk identifier: 0xfd823fb1
   
      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
   test.img1            2048       99999       48976   83  Linux
   

3. Install the bootloader

   [root@zyq tmp]# grub2-install test.img
   Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
   Installation finished. No error reported.
   

4. view disk

 

The space occupied by core.img

2048*512/1024-0.5=1023.5Kbytes