Introduction
CD-XRay is an utility to browse the real contents of CD-DAs, CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. It can display the sectors in cooked mode (user data only) or in raw mode (headers, user data, error correction codes).
It offers classical navigation functions to display the real contents of data sectors.
It is sector oriented, which is beneficial for such files, where the classical sector size of 512 bytes used by hexadecimal editors doesn't correspond to the way the data is organized.

User Interface
The user interface is the same as classical hexadecimal editors:

Analytical Display
CD-XRay recognizes following data structures, and displays them accordingly:

• ISO Volume Descriptor
• Joliet Volume Descriptor
• ISO Path Table
• Joliet Path Table
• ISO Directory
• Joliet Directory
• Macintosh Volume Descriptor
• Macintosh Partition Table
• Macintosh Master Directory Block
• Macintosh B Tree Header
• Macintosh B Tree Nodes

Disk Access Method
To access the drives, we use the Aspi layer under Windows 95/98/ME and NT. This layer must be up to date (4.57 or higher).
Under Windows 2000 and XP, we use a service called lsdiorw.exe, which must be installed from an administrator account. See some comments on this service.

Managing Disk Images
To manage disk images (ISO images, and the like), please see File-XRay, low-level file explorer.

See also:

• Disk-XRay, low-level disk explorer.
• File-XRay, low-level file explorer.

Download
A demo/trial version, whose validity is limited to 30 days, can be downloaded from this Web site. After this trial period, the programs refuse to run and you are invited to buy a full license.