Download IsoBuster 3.0

Smart Projects has released a new stable version of IsoBuster. This program specializes in reading bad or damaged CDs and DVDs, and in many cases can recover files that are no longer recognized by Windows. Another strong point of IsoBuster is that it can read almost any CD or DVD image format imaginable, including *.iso, *.bin, *.img, *.ccd, and *.nrg. The program is largely free, only a few advanced features are only accessible to paying users. Exactly what those are is up this page to find. New in version 3.0 is that not only optical discs are supported, but now also all other internal and external storage media. The full changelog looks like this:

ISO Buster 3.0

I am glad to be able to announce the release of an exciting new IsoBuster. Excited because this new version, besides optical media (CD, DVD and BD) now also supports Flash drives, Media cards of all sorts and makes, Jaz, Zip, Floppy drives, Hard Drives etc. To top it of, there is now also brand new NTFS support!

To try and poor it in a list, here are the newly supported disks / drives:

• Thumb / Flash drives
• SD disks / drives
• Compact disks / drives
• MMC disks / drives
• SSD disks / drives
• Jaz disks / drives
• Zip disks / drives
• Floppy disks / drives
• HD disks / drives
• And more…

And here’s the newly supported File System:

• NTFS

On optical media (CD, DVD, BD) we are accustomed to the concept of Sessions and Tracks. On all these newly supported disks, logical volumes (file-systems) are put into Partitions, not Sessions. IsoBuster supports, just like you were used to with Sessions using IsoBuster:

• All Windows / DOS / Macintosh / HFS Partitions are immediately shown
• All the file-system(s) in those partitions are immediatly shown
• You can use all the features you normally would use on tracks and sessions, but now on partitions.
• You can do data recovery pretty much the exact same way as on optical
• Forensics investigators will love the easy overview of all partitions and all file systems
• See sector by sector content with Sector View
• Extract portions of the media
• Support for UDF, FAT, NTFS, HFS(+) on any partition
• Etc.