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IsoBuster Pro - Mini-Review
IainB:
UPDATE: 2014-11-22 0851hrs: IsoBuster v3.5 beta (2014-11-21).
I have also added details to the table in the OP of this mini-review:
* To summarise a list of the range of media IsoBuster can recover data from.
* To provide a link to a Testimonials page.
* To provide a link to reviews in PC forums and discussion groups.
IainB:
IsoBuster Pro - today only on BitsDuJour 50% discount - at time of posting this.
I reckon this is probably a worthwhile piece of emergency recovery software to have in your back pocket.
IsoBuster - Recovery Software - 50% off Discount for PC
Flash drives, SD cards, CDs, DVDs, hard drives, and Blu Ray discs are great for offline storage. That is, of course, until they're damaged! Then the panics sets in, with fruitless trips to the geek squad, frantic internet searches, and the lingering feeling that you'll never see those photos, movies, documents, emails, or crucial powerpoint presentations again.
Never fear, IsoBuster is here to save the day!
IsoBuster is a data recovery tool specifically designed for retrieving data from just about any damaged storage device or disc. This powerful, flexible recovery tool supports countless optical, image, and storage formats, including CD, DVD, MMC Media, Micro SD, ISO, USB flash, mobile phone memory cards, Blu Ray, SDH, IMG, and HD DVD, and much, much, MUCH more!
Check it out folks! Data recovery from physical media is only part of what IsoBuster can do. It's also a one-stop source for opening and extracting ISO, IMG, and other disc image formats!
Using IsoBuster is so easy. Just insert a disc or drive, select it, and let IsoBuster mount the media. In seconds, you'll be looking at all of the tracks and sessions located on the disc, along with Explorer-like file access.
With IsoBuster's improved error handling, you'll be assured of recovering the data that you're after. Just copy the ones that you want to save to a secure location, and BAM, you're a hero!
Today's promotion includes the following:
IsoBuster PRO - Personal ($19.97)
IsoBuster PRO - Professional ($29.97)
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IainB:
UPDATE: 2015-06-28 0008hrs: IsoBuster v3.6 released (2015-06-19).
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Release notes: (Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
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IsoBuster 3.6 Released! June 19, 2015
IsoBuster 3.6 was released today and it features a ton of new functionality, improvements and has some important bug fixes as well. IsoBuster 3.6 is a great update again and if you're running a 3.x version you should definitely (and freely) upgrade to this new version! If you have a 1.x or 2.x license you can still upgrade with a nice discount!
Here's a list of all the goodies:
Changes / New:
Support for the Linux EXT file system
Support for Rimage mastered CD/DVD discs with manifest file
Support for Nintendo GameCube file system
Support for GEMDOS / Atari - ST FAT12-16 variant
Support for High Sierra on CD-ROM (the predecessor to ISO9660)
Implemented internal device caching, especially used during File System recognition. Many file systems start from similar addresses.
Caching avoids having to re-read blocks for every file-system that is checked
Detect if the Nintendo Wii file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Linux RomFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Unix/Linux JFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Unix/Linux ZFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Unix/Linux Minix file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Linux BtrFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Linux SquashFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Linux CramFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Linux BeFS (BFS) file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
Detect if the Microsoft ReFS file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
New and much faster way to find deleted files and folders in an NTFS file system
(*) Full exploration of this file system is not implemented but now an investigator can see if it is present
Improvements:
Extra tests to make sure a child folder doesn't have subfolders that are a parent folder, creating circular links, in buggy or
recovered file systems
Added a 'Paranoid mode' when creating managing IBP/IBQ image files, to make sure all data is flushed to the destination
without system caching, and structures are updated regularly
Allow to complete a managed image file from media of which the layout doesn't fully match, but the risk is manageable [Professional]
Allow to complete a managed image file from another non-managed image file [Professional]
Improved speed when updating the IBP managed image file
Added various extraction type switches via the command line: /ET: A, IBP, WAV, RAW, R2U, RUN, DLL
Added new file system switches via the command line: /EF: see the various newly implemented file systems
Added Pinnacle Studio mastered DVDs to the IFO/VOB recognition sequence ("PCLE UDFLib")
Added ability (via right mouse click) to see the properties-window-text as text in a memo field (for easy copy and paste)
Support for underscores in function names in the libewf.dll, so that Borland bcc32 built dlls can be used as well
Always display FileName:StreamName, with or without [ADS] appended, for NTFS Alternate Data Streams
Removed registration dialog nag when doing a surface scan on BD media
Improvements in the Extract From-To functionality, dialog and warnings
Make sure testing for encrypted partitions only happens once, not every time the visual node is created (e.g. when switching
devices in GUI)
Do not read extra blocks to test for partition encryption if there are enough cached blocks
Updated the 'Agent' string when doing an online query, to check for a new version, to be more compatible with modern servers
and systems
Reverse the order of AVDP parsing, LBA 512 first rather than 256 first, in case of a CeQuadrat made UDF disc, to deal with
CeQuadrat UDF bugs
Get the proper volume name for CeQuadrat made UDF CD-R discs
After an image file has been made, save its filename to the recently opened image files, so that it can be opened immediately
from the recent image files' list
Improved .GI image file interpretation, specifically improvements in finding the header size
Show files and folders with the System property in another color
Show special files, file entries that are not used in the classical way by Unix/Linux file systems, in another color
Show Windows overlay icons and add the shortcut overlay icon to EXT symbolic link files
Added checkbox to options to uncheck using CD-Text in filenames, when audio tracks are extracted
The file-exists dialog now also allows to auto-rename a file, instead of over-writing or ignoring the file (non-Windows file systems
allow duplicate but caps-sensitive names in the same folder)
New dialog to auto-rename filenames that are illegal in Windows but OK in other non-Windows file systems
Auto-rename folders, during extraction, when they contain illegal Windows-filename characters or a Windows-reserved file/folder name.
Show Endianess in UFS, XFS, ISO and SquashFS and other File System properties
Improvements in drag&drop functionality and the use of the temporary folder. Better clean-up afterwards
Possibility to always get the RETRY SELECT ABORT error dialog (instead of RETRY OMIT ABORT) on file extraction
Various improvements, changes and re-writes in the core code / engine, as this is a living project and to deal with the ever=growing
new functionality
Various GUI improvements
Fixes:
Fixed GUI issue that caused incorrect values to be displayed in certain error messages
Fixed possible hang when EWF image files are loaded
Fixed that sometimes the sanitizing part after finding missing files and folders on a FAT volume could take 'forever', due to
bad FAT records
Fixed data-corruption issue, introduced in 3.5, while extracting files with more than 10 extents (fragments would be extracted
in the wrong order)
Fixed it so that when an IBP/IBQ is made twice in a row from the same media (without a refresh) the bitmap is still fully written
out to the IBP
Avoid exception error on bad IBP without (enough) bitmap data (rare test case)
Fixed extraction of named streams of an NTFS folder (not file)
Download IsoBuster 3.6 here.
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Peter Van Hove,
Founder and CEO
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