Disk Viewer

KillDisk's Disk Viewer allows users to view the contents of connected drives on a sector's level in a hexadecimal view. To launch it, select a disk to be inspected and click Browse Disk toolbar button.

To make it easier to navigate the Hex Editor view, KillDisk also offers a list of templates to help display the organization of the sectors on the disk by colored sections. The above uses the MBR template, below is a template for NTFS file system boot sector.

The Disk Viewer also includes a Find feature, for locating specific data in the low-level disk view

Find what

Input the characters you are searching for in ANSI, Hex or Unicode

Search Direction

If you have an idea of where the data may be located, specify where to search

Not

Search for characters that do not correspond to the Find what parameter

Ignore case

Disables case-sensitivity in the search

Use

Select between Regular Expressions and Wildcards

Per block search

To speed up the search process, if you are familiar with the position of the data in the data block, you may specify a search with an offset or beginning of the object

Disk Viewer's Navigate feature, located on toolbar allows:

Go to Offset

Jumps to the particular offset that needs to be entered manually in a decimal or hexadecimal form

Go to Sector

Jumps to the particular sector or cluster on the disk

Partition Table

Jumps to the sector where partition table is located, for example to the first sector on MBR disks

Partition Table

Jumps to the sector where partition table is located, for example to the first sector on MBR disks

Particular Partition

Lists all partitions and allows to jump to the boot sectors, to the beginning and to the end of any available partition.