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IsoBuster 5.4.1 Released!
June 05, 2024
I'm very happy to announce the release of IsoBuster 5.4.1.

See the list below for all the goodies:

Changes / New:

*.PFR Image file support
*.IMZ Image file support (Multiple images supported, but limit currently set to 20)
*.ZL and *.ZZ Image file support (zlib compressed image files (similar to the *.GZ functionality)) (*)
*.ZIP Image file support (For single-file image files that are compressed in a zip file) (*)
*.QCOW2 Image file support (current snapshot, no encryption)
PartClone Image file support
NTFSClone Image file support (versions 10.0 and higher)
Support for Kurzweil K2000 synthesizer FAT 16 diskettes
Support for DOS 1.0 style FAT12 floppies without a BPB (Bios Parameter Block)
Support for Roland (Synthesizer) Audio CDs, Zip disks and images
Support for ReFS version 3.10
Ability to load a generic image file from and offset and with a range. Syntax: \\#\(1024,51200)i:\images\file.iso (for instance via imlst)
*.gz, *.zip, *.zl, *.zz etc. compressed file formats don't support random access, so IsoBuster has to index the files internally while loading them. For huge files his can take a minute or two.

Improvements:

Improvement for Audio CD *.pxi image files
Message dialog selection-items can be selected via Up / Down or Scroll-up or Scroll-down or via their index 0 - 9 - A - Z
Show $meta data files for the Panasonic DVR MEIHDFS file system (Requires at least a [Professional] license)
The Panasonic DVR MEIHDFS file system now lists Orphaned files and folders if the root is not good or unreadable.
An automatic targeted scan is started when there's a Panasonic DVR MEIHDFS file system signature but no further data at the expected locations
Various other improvements and fixes specifically for Panasonic video recorders
Improvements detecting the Pioneer DVR file system
Various other improvements and fixes specifically for Pioneer video recorders
Finding a missing VAT as part of the UDF file system can now be canceled
Improved the path that is stored in an MD5 file (also in the Edit window)
XML Reports are now formatted per the XML 1.1 standard (previously the XML 1.0 standard)
Control characters 0 - 31 are now replaced by their numeric character reference in XML reports
Detection for Roland floppies / diskettes by showing a File System icon
Recognize *.regf files by their signature
Don't create a *.gzndx file if the compressed file is too small (and it fits in the cache)
Detect and show PS4 External HDD encryption
Show the type of encryption in use in ISZ Image files
Use Rich Text formatting (rtf) when displaying a CUE file
Use Rich Text formatting (rtf) when displaying a DMG embedded XML file
Use Rich Text formatting (rtf) when displaying an RMG embedded XML file
Use Rich Text formatting (rtf) when displaying a CCD embedded INI file
Use Rich Text formatting (rtf) in Sector View
Various improvements under the hood for ReFS, making it more robust in case of data corruption
Ability to select an ReFS $meta file that is currently not the default and use that to create a new ReFS file system (Needs [Enterprise] license)
Plenty of other tweaks and improvements
Fixes:

Fix printing from the edit window in 64 bit mode
Fix for larger ReFS 3.x volumes where the root could not be found
Fixed making corrupt ~4GB *.gzndx files for huge *.gz files in 32 bit mode
Opening a split *.gz.00? file via the *.gzndx file now works properly (before it would not find the *.001 file)
Version 5.4.1 fixes some regression in 5.4, in particular when opening generic image files

Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD, DVD or a Blu Ray disc. Recover deleted files from a Hard Drive, Memory card or of from flash media that Windows says needs to be formatted ! Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup,... IsoBuster can do it all!

One tool, supporting all formats, for only one very democratic price.

No accumulated cost if you need more than one type media or file system supported. IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use media data recovery tool. It supports all disc formats and all common file systems. Insert a disc, USB stick or memory card, Start up IsoBuster and select the drive or media (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the partitions or 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. Instead of being limited to one file system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions or hidden partitions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

Combine this all-revealing functionality with far better read and recovery mechanisms, scanning for lost files functionality, workarounds for a wide range of drive and software bugs, limitations or shortcomings and you have an enormously powerful data recovery tool. IsoBuster is must-have-software for every PC user and is deliberately kept low priced to be able to offer a solution for everybody.

IsoBuster full feature list:
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, 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,... 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 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.
All sessions, including older ones, are accessible and can be recovered.
Supports mounting several virtual sessions inside a single DVD+RW or DVD-RW track.
Read and Extraction of files, CD/DVD images, tracks and sessions from all optical media.
Scanning for lost UDF files and folders. More on UDF recovery.
Scanning for lost ISO9660 / Joliet sessions.
Scanning for files based on their file-signature.
Scanning for IFO / BUP / VOB file systems on VIDEO and AUDIO DVDs.
Scanning for lost, deleted and orphaned FAT 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
Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA, 7, 8
Sony abCD,...
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.
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.
Supports multiple Mac Partitions on one medium (e.g. multiple partitions on a CD or in a dmg file).
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.
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.
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).
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.)
Creation of checksum files (*.md5).
Creation of 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.
Ability to pause a number of seconds between retries to allow the drive to "recover" (useful for older drives in combination with marginally readable media).
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 command line parameters.
Comprehensive help file (also available online).
On top of this, IsoBuster interprets 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)*.FLP (Floppy image)*.E01*.S01*.L01 (Expert Witness Format)*.RMG (Rimage)*.DSK (Generic Disk Image)*.VMDK (virtual Machine Disk)*.UDF (UDF Image)*.DD*.XISO*.XBX*.VHD (Microsoft)*.VHDX (Microsoft)*.VDI (Oracle VM VirtualBox)