Restoring files within a backup image file with WinHex

If you need to recover a missing file that you remember that's its in the backup image you could recover fast with this tool. Also its valid for an VMWare image file vmdk or binary file created with another tool. You could recover files or use an existing Winhex image to use it with VMWare as disk (I will explain better in a future). I'm going to show you how.

Open image file with winhex. Most times when you open an image with winhex you would see thats it's displaying as Hexadecimal view. To explore within image you need to Interpret as disk, so you need to go to Specialist menu, then "Interpret image file as disk". Now you must see the partition table, then enter in the partition that you need to open (if you don't remember try one and go back if you are wrong). Then a file structure will appear, look for your file and select it with right button and choose Recover/copy option.

It's so simply, nothing more to do.

See Backup manager