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IsoBuster 5.1 Build 5.1.0.0

IsoBuster 5.1 Build 5.1.0.0
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IsoBuster is the ultimate data data recovery software that supports ALL types of media, including CD/DVD, BD/HD DVD, Hard Drives, SSM, USB flash drives, Zip drives, Jaz drives, floppies etc.

IsoBuster lets you rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD, DVD or a Blu-Ray disc. Also it allows to recover deleted files from a Hard Drive, Memory card or of from flash media that Windows says needs to be formatted!

The program is a highly specialized yet easy to use media data recovery tool. It supports all disc formats and all common file systems. Start up app, Insert a disc, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media.

IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system.

IsoBuster Features:

  • Data recovery from all possible CD, DVD and Blu Ray (BD & HD DVD) formats:
    CD-i, VCD, SVCD, SACD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW, DVD-ROM, DVCD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+MRW, DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+VR, DVD+VRW, DVD-VR, DVD-VRW, DVD-VM, DVD-VFR, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-R SRM, BD-R RRM, BD-R SRM+POW, BD-R SRM-POW, BD-XL, BDXL-R, BDXL-RE, BDXL-R TL, BDXL-R QL, BDXL-RE TL, UHD, M-Disc, BDAV, BDMV HD DVD-ROM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL, HD DVD-RAM, HD DVD-Video, UDO, … And the list continues.
  • Data Recovery from Hard Drives, USB flash / thumb sticks, Memory stick, compact media cards, MMC media cards, SD, Micro SD, Mini SD, xD, GSM, CF, SDHC, SDSC, SDXC, SDIO, mobile phone memory card, memory cards that are used in digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones, MP3 players and any other type media cards, Floppy, Zip, Clik and Jaz drives etc.
  • All device access, media access, data gathering and interpretation is done exclusively by the software. It does not rely on Windows to provide or interpret the data and so can work completely independent from Windows’ limitations.
  • Better error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data anyway.
  • The use of both generic and alternative ways to get to the data, get the best out of your CD/DVD-ROM drive.
  • The use of primary and secondary file systems to get to the data and/or make use of file system data that might be ignored or ‘forgotten’ by popular OS. Explore the alternatives.
  • CDs stay ‘readable’ after problems (such as Buffer Under-run,…).
  • Read / Extraction from open sessions.
  • Supports mounting several virtual sessions inside a single DVD+RW or DVD-RW track.
  • Scanning for lost UDF files and folders. More on UDF recovery.
  • Scanning for lost ISO9660 / Joliet sessions, IFO / BUP / VOB file systems on VIDEO and AUDIO DVDs.
  • Read and Extraction of files, CD/DVD images, tracks and sessions from all optical media.
  • Scanning for lost, deleted and orphaned FAT files and folders.
  • Scanning for lost or deleted NTFS files and folders
  • Find lost data on CDs, DVDs, BDs or HD DVDs, created with integrated drag and drop applications, otherwise also known as packet writing software. Optimized, but not exclusive, for:
    • Roxio Direct CD, Roxio Drag-to-Disc
    • Ahead / Nero InCD
    • Prassi / Veritas / Sonic DLA
    • VOB / Pinnacle Instant-Write
    • CeQuadrat Packet CD
    • NTI FileCD
    • BHA B’s CLiP
    • Sony abCD,…

Other IsoBuster Features:

  • Support for Direct CD compressed files. Decompression on the fly.
  • Support for Microsoft’s Live File system.
  • Built in UDF Reader, UDF 1.02 (e.g DVDs), UDF 1.5 (e.g. Packet writing on CD-R, DVDR, CD-RW and DVDRW), UDF 2.01, 2.50, 2.60 (e.g. BD-R SRM+POW),…
  • Find lost pictures created and saved to CD or DVD with Sony Mavica, other digital cameras or other devices with embedded UDF write functionality.
  • Find lost movies created and saved to CD,DVD, BD or HD DVD with Hitachi, other digital cameras or other devices with embedded UDF write functionality.
  • Auto find extensions based on file content to try and give an appropriate name to an orphaned file. This built in file identifier assigns the proper extension to the file so that Windows applications can open the file. Only needed for orphaned files without a name.
  • Support for Mount Rainier CD-RW and DVD+RW discs in MRW compatible and non-MRW compatible drives. Auto detection and automatic remapping which can be switched off or forced at all times. Built in MRW remapper / reader. (Built in Method 3 remapper).
  • Support for formatted CD-RW discs mounted in very old drives that do not know the CD-RW fixed packet format yet. Auto detection and automatic remapping which can be switched of or forced at all times.
  • Built in Method 2 remapper.
  • Supports multiple Mac Partitions on one medium (e.g. multiple partitions on a CD or in a dmg file).
  • Built in MFS Reader supporting MFS for Apple Mac.
  • Built in HFS Reader supporting HFS and HFS+, the Apple Mac file systems.
  • Transparent built in support for Mac Resource Fork extensions in the ISO9660 file system.
  • Transparent built in support for Mac Resource Fork extensions in the UDF file system.
  • Includes a vast range of features for Mac files support on PC (HFS, ISO9660, UDF), including Mac Binary extraction of files.
  • Recover data from blanked or quick formatted DVD+RW media.
  • Mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg ‘in one’ from SVCD and VCD.
  • Ability to create managed image files (*.IBP / *.IBQ).
  • Enormous file system coverage and different ways to use them all (find the one suited best for your needs). CDs and DVDs often have different file systems pointing to the same files. This offers possibilities.
  • Rock Ridge (e.g. for Commodore users, Server use, etc.).
  • HP SimpleSave support.
  • Full FAT: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, ExFAT and FATX support (for instance on DVD-RAM, BD-RE, HDD, Flash media etc.).
  • NTFS on all types of media.
  • Linux EXT file system support
  • Linux XFS file system support
  • Rimage Encrypted file system support
  • GameCube (GC) file system support
  • WBFS support
  • RAID1 support
  • LVM support
  • FAT Undelete
  • NTFS Undelete
  • DOS / Windows Partitions
  • EFI / GUID Partitions (GPT)
  • HFS / Mac Partitions
  • Extended Master Boot Record (EMBR) Partitions
  • Finds VIDEO and AUDIO IFO / BUP / VOB file systems independently from other file systems.

More Features:

  • Transparent support for (open) DVD+VR(W) discs, remapping of the content etc. Open +VR discs’ files can be seen and extracted right away.
  • Show (and allow to extract) the Nero project file if available on the optical disc.
  • Support for the CD-i file system and the different behavior from drives trying to mount a CD-i disc.
  • Information and file system properties (a must for FS developers).
  • CD/DVD/HD DVD/BD Surface scan to see if there are physical read errors.
  • Opens checksum files (*.md5) and automatically verifies the image with the checksum file.
  • Check if all files and folders are readable without having to extract all data to HD.
  • Single sector extraction. Extraction of CD/DVD/BD/HD DVD blocks (e.g. for engineering purposes).
  • Sector Viewer. Check a sector’s content in IsoBuster’s editor and print or save to HD. Engineers and computer savvy people find missing data making use of Sector View.
  • Compile (and edit, save, print) lists of all files that contain physical read errors.
  • Compile lists of all files, including their Logical block address (ideal to find the logical play order for mp3 CDs).
  • Export XML and DFXML
  • CD-Text support from CD and various image files (*.PXI, *.CCD, *.B5T and *.CUE image files).
  • Creation of image files (*.ibp and *.ibq,*.iso, *.bin, *.tao.) from all possible media
  • Creation of checksum files (*.md5), cue sheet files (*.cue).
  • Conversion of all supported image files to iso/tao/bin/cue/ibp/ibq files.
  • Support for Plugins so that various other images files can be opened and/or created.
  • Handles opening of multi-file image files.
  • Extraction of Audio tracks to wave files.
  • Support for the Expert Witness compressed Format (EWF).
  • Play audio analogue. Instruct the drive to play the audio through the analogue output.
  • Creation of multi-file image files or disc spanning to specified size.
  • Support for bootable CDs and DVDs. Support for the El Torito standard. Perfect aid to slipstream Windows installation CDs.
  • Add, Edit, Delete files found based on their signatures.
  • Show file extents. (Show the different parts of a file, when it is fragmented on disc).
  • Ability to add/edit extents on custom created files (e.g. Lost and Found and Customizable file system).
  • Ability to add a customizable file system (where you can add, edit files, for engineering purposes).
  • Support for Windows 10 transparent system compressed NTFS files

IsoBuster 5.1 Release Notes

Changes / New:

  • Ability to analyze a FAT (12, 16 or 32) and work out all the files it references without the need for a full media scan [Professional license or better]
  • Ability to try and figure out file extensions of files found via analyzing the FAT (via right mouse click “Try to find matching extensions”)
  • Ability to try and figure out *.CHK files’ true file extension (in FAT “FOUND.???” folders (e.g. “FOUND.000”), also via right mouse click)
  • Show NTFS Junctions and Symbolic links by applying a shortcut overlay icon, and by providing link information in the Properties dialog
  • Finding logical drives (drive letter volumes) is now default ON on modern systems (W10 and higher) after a clean install

Improvements:

  • Improved extraction dialog scaling when dragged to a different monitor
  • Improved search dialog scaling when dragged to a different monitor
  • Improved message dialog scaling when dragged to a different monitor
  • Improved properties dialog scaling when dragged to a different monitor
  • Improved options dialog scaling when dragged to a different monitor
  • Improved ‘About’ dialog to properly scale the image on all systems and for all dpi settings
  • Improved file-system icons for better scaling and to look crisp for all dpi settings
  • Improvements detecting raw (2352 bytes per block) generic CD images
  • Auto-open the MDS file when an MDF file is opened (and when the filename matches)
  • Creating an MD5 can now be done straight to file, or the result can be shown in the edit window
  • Workaround for an unknown 12 byte header in rare ISO/IMG files made by an unknown application
  • Improved FAT detection by double checking if it’s not a BitLocker encrypted Partition
  • Improved MBR partition parsing by double checking if it’s not an image of a BitLocker encrypted Partition
  • The level up, previous and next selection-history buttons now have a shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + (Arrow-up or Arrow-left or Arrow-right)
  • Remove “OpenWithProgids” entries again from the registry when disabling an extension because Windows 10/11 appears to use it as backup, which defeats the purpose of disabling the association
  • Get the proper size for logical drives (Volumes) instead of the physical drive’s size the Partition/Volume is on
  • Changed a logical drive’s name to reflect on what physical drive the volume is located
  • Option to clear an optical disc drive’s content after the eject button is clicked
  • Option to change how the media/cd/hdd/.. filename for an image file is formed
  • Stay with font size 9 when the screen dpi > 100% (e.g. 150%) (revert 5.0 change (in case of higher dpi))
  • Show speed when extracting (or cloning) Media Segments
  • Draw a line between different types of devices, Optical vs HDD (Physical) vs HDD (Logical) vs Image Files
  • Display up to 6 digits behind the comma when showing the percentage of bad sectors, so that only a few errors on larger volumes still produce a value different from 100%, e.g. 99.999999 %
  • Ability to launch the Edit Window with the contents of all tabs in the Properties dialog
  • Updated libwim-15.dll to version 1.13.6
  • Plenty of other tweaks and improvements

Fixes:

  • Fixed a 64 bit instability (and program shut down) that could happen on certain systems. If your version runs fine, this doesn’t affect you
  • Fixed an unexpected shut down while parsing certain FAT file systems
  • Fixed parsing CloneCD *.ccd image files using the 64bit version (it was not a problem with the 32 bit version)
  • Fixed creating an MD5 file of CUE + ISO combinations. Only the CUE’s MD5 would be recorded in the file
  • Fixed building an error list for media with some read errors at the end (sometimes the range started incorrectly at address 0)
  • Fixed NTFS hard links’ file-naming (which could be off, depending on the order of filenames in the MFT records)
  • Fixed an NTFS corruption issue with LZX-compressed WofCompressedData named streams
  • Fixed it so that overlay icons are shown again in the right hand side ListView (for instance shortcut overlay icons) (Broken since 4.9)
  • Fixed FAT meta files’ size and offset when the FAT was detected inside a boot image on CD

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The program interprets CD image files, such as:

*.DAO (Duplicator), *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead, Creator), *.BIN (CDRWin), *.IMG (CloneCD), *.CCD (CloneCD) , *.CIF (Creator), *.FCD (Uncompressed), *.NRG (Nero), *.GCD (Prassi), *.P01 (Toast), *.C2D (WinOnCD), *.CUE (CDRWin), *.CDI (DiscJuggler), *.CD (CD-i OptImage), *.GI (Prassi PrimoDVD), *.PXI (PlexTools), *.MDS (Alcohol), *.MDF (Alcohol), *.VC4 (Virtual CD), *.000 (Virtual CD), *.B5T (BlindWrite), *.B5I (BlindWrite), *.DMG (Apple Macintosh), *.IBP (IsoBuster), *.IBQ (IsoBuster), *.NCD (NTI).