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IsoBuster 5.2 Released!
June 19, 2022
IsoBuster 5.2 was released today.

It features a lot of new functionality again. It can now open spanned files and drives, in various combinations as image files, and it can clone huge drives (for instance) to several spanned drives (and/or files). Also pretty cool is the support for many new image file formats, most of them compressed, such as *.imgc, *.iso.gz, *.isz, *.cso, *.vcd, *.zso and more. And then there's extraction of Mac style files and their Finder properties to 'Apple Single' or 'Apple Double'. There is actually a lot more to check out .. see below list for all the details:

Changes / New:

Support for Compressed ISO image files, also known as CISO files (*.cso, *.ciso)
Support for Compact ISO image files (No compression but omitted sectors) (*.cso, *.wbi)
Support for (compressed) ZISO image files (*.zso, *.ziso)
Support for (compressed) DAX image files (*.dax)
Support for (compressed) JSO image files (*.jso)
Support for (compressed) ISZ image files (*.isz)
Support for (compressed) VCD image files (*.vcd)
Support for (compressed) IMGC image files (*.imgc)
Support for (compressed) ISO.GZ optical image files (*.iso.gz)
Support for (compressed) IMG.GZ memory stick image files (*.img.gz)
Support for spanned file's list (*.imlst). A simple text file with a file or drive on each line
Support for 'Apple Single' file extraction via right mouse click (on files and folders in a Mac file system MFS/HFS(+) or on files with Mac properties in UDF, ISO/Joliet and NTFS)
Support for 'Apple Double' (._*) file extraction via right mouse click (on files and folders in a Mac file system MFS/HFS(+) or on files with Mac properties in UDF, ISO/Joliet and NTFS)
Ability to open spanned files and drives in various combinations
Ability to extract image files and make clones to spanned drives and files
Ability to execute commands via the breadcrumb control (now documented)
Ability to execute command line parameters via the breadcrumb control
Support for the Toshiba RD-VX47 DVR
F2FS File System Recognition
Support for the Nintendo GameCube (GC) Memory Card (MC) file system
Support for Nintendo GameCube Memory Card image files (*.gcp)
Support for the Nintendo 64 file system
Support for Nintendo 64 Memory Pak image files (*.mpk, *.n64)
New Command line parameter /CHSP: to change the optical drive's speed on bad sectors
New Command line parameter /DELAY: to introduce waits between reads, in case of bad sectors (Same as via the GUI but with more options)
Use your own icons inside IsoBuster is now documented
Improvements:

FAT handling rewritten (A generic FAT implementation for all type FATs, used by various file systems including the FAT file system itself)
Analyzing a FAT in search of files without the need to parse the entire file system or do a full scan has been improved
Analyzing a FAT on its own is now part of the generic FAT implementation and therefore also available for GC MC and other similar file systems
FAT file systems that miss the MBR signature are now parsed as well (As seen on some Toshiba DVR)
Improved showing properties for various objects
GameCube Optical File Systems don't show the extra [SYSTEM] icon anymore. The files can now be inspected as $Meta files
The UDF file system (and its Recovered variants) now expose $Meta files: $AVDP, $PVD, $LVD, ..
ISO, Joliet and Rock Ridge File Systems now expose $Meta files: $VD and $PathTable
XFS filenames are now considered UTF8 instead of ANSI
Partition information is now shown as "Source" when cloning a partition (instead of just the source drive information)
Tracks, Partitions and Sessions can now also have the 'compressed' property set, when they are part of a compressed image file for instance
The ability to clone over drives that are BitLocker encrypted and that are currently locked by Windows has been improved (Also best use Windows' Disk Management to remove the drive letter first)
Support for *.bin, *.b01, *.b02, .. multi-file naming
Command line parameter /EP: now supports a comma separated list (no need to add /EP: per switch)
Command line parameter /EP:NCD can now be used to suppress the destination check dialog
Command line parameter /EP:NFS can now be used to suppress the 'Not enough free space' dialog
Command line parameter /EF: now also supports /ef:mfs
Command line parameter /EF: now also supports /ef:mac
Command line parameter /CI: now also supports /ci:d for completion on demand
Command line parameter /ET: now supports /et:mcb, /et:asn and /et:adb to extract as MacBinary, Apple Single or Apple Double
Improved MacBinary header creation during extraction
MacBinary extraction is not a global setting anymore for UDF, ISO/Joliet and NTFS, only for MFS and HFS(+)
IsoBuster now replaces illegal filename characters (for Windows) when extracting from MFS and HFS(+) using the exact same characters a Mac would use (For instance if it were to save to a Windows file system like FAT32)
The filename renaming functionality in case of same-name files has been improved, especially when the file name contains more dots than just the one near the end
IsoBuster now also aborts during completion on demand on read errors (for instance when testing file readability or while performing a surface scan) if that is the setting in Scan options
Some more scaling improvements
Plenty of other tweaks and improvements
Fixes:

IsoBuster now cleans up unused drive handles straight away. Windows Auto-play doesn't play nice with open handles, so when IsoBuster was running and a CD was inserted, Windows, depending on the system settings, would immediately eject the disc again

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)