Download IsoBuster 3.2 Beta

Smart Projects has released a new beta release 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. Since version 3.0, the program can also handle all other internal and external storage media, such as hard drives, USB sticks and memory cards. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Changes:

• Support for ExFAT.
• Find deleted NTFS files and folders during a scan for missing files and folders.
• Implemented a “Find deleted files and folders” option, when an NTFS file-system is selected. This is a much faster scan if you’re only interested in finding deleted files and folders in an NTFS file-system.
• Support for FATX
• Support for XISO / XDVDFS
• Extended Master Boot Record (EMBR) support.
• BSD partition support.

Improvements:

• Further improved the UAC experience by tweaking and fixing issues. The experience is still the same as described in previous release.
• Remove duplicate partitions (for instance when there’s a GPT but the MBR fields still point to valid partitions as well).
• Ways to dump all sectors that are being read to log files (for debug purposes) (support for *.ibdat and *.ibadr).
• Added .bkf file type recognition to the file-signature scan.
• Further improved the ListView Columns’ drag behavior by working around (Builder) VCL limits/bugs.
• An NTFS file also gets the Sparse property now when it’s not fragmented (and not only when its extents are sparse)
• Display the File’s start LBA for a sparse file, except when the first extent is sparse, then “Sparse” is displayed
• Added Full Path(s) and Start and Finish processing time to the MD5 file (as comments).
• ability (set via options) to store and restore the position of the main form (instead of always centered).
• Added *.dd to the supported image files.
• Recognize EXT SuperBlock when trying to determine the blocksize of an image (for instance a Linux made .dd file with an EXT1,2,3 or 4 file-system).
• Improved handling of NTFS MFT embedded files during the scan for missing files based on their signature
• Various other smaller GUI improvements

Fixes:

• Not all *.png files were found during a scan for missing files and folders (bug introduced in version 3.1).
• Mac HFS file systems with large fragmented files (more than 8 extents) could trigger a program crash.
• In rare cases not all files and/or folders of an NTFS folder were found, if that folder was described in both the MFT record and via INDX records.
• Sometimes too small files were created, when they were fully sparse (one extent, sparse (= all zeroes) (NTFS).
• Fixed it so that the progress bar also changes color (red) in case of errors, during a scan for missing files and folders