IsoBuster


The Ultimate CD and DVD data recovery tool !

Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD !
Save important documents, precious pictures from the family, your only system backup, ...
IsoBuster can do it all !  Also at http://www.cdrecovery.net

IsoBuster features:

- Data recovery from CD and DVD.
- 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 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.
- CDs stay 'readable' after problems (such as Buffer Under-run). Read from open sessions, ... .
- Read and Extraction of files, CD/DVD images, tracks and sessions from all optical media.
- Supports : CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, ...
- Supports : DVD-ROM, DVCD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL ...
- Scanning for lost UDF files and folders.
- Find lost data on CD or DVD created with drag and drop applications (e.g. Direct CD, InCD, DLA, Instant-Write, Packet CD, Drag to Disc, FileCD, abCD, ...).  
- Find lost pictures created and saved to CD with Mavica, 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 Direct CD compressed files.  Decompression on the fly.
- 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 of or forced at all times.
- 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
- Recover data from blanked or quick formatted DVD+RW media.
- Mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one'.
- Enormous file system coverage and different ways to use them all (find the one suited best for your needs).
- ISO9660, Joliet, Romeo (Short File-names vs. Long File-names on mastered CDs)
- Big Endian (Motorola), Little Endian (Intel) (Windows vs. Unix, Mac and other systems' defaults)
- UDF 1.02 (e.g DVDs), UDF 1.5 (e.g. Packet writing on CD-R and CD-RW), UDF 2.01, 2.50, ...
- Rock Ridge (e.g. for Commodore users)
- Information and file system properties (must for FS developers)
- CD/DVD 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 parts, fit to your needs (Engineering purposes)
- Sector Viewer. Check a sector's content in IsoBuster's editor and print or save to HD.
- 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, *.PXI, *.CCD, *.B5T and *.CUE image files.
- Creation of image files (*.iso, *.bin, *.tao)
- Creation of checksum files (*.md5)
- Creation of cuesheet files (*.cue)
- Conversion of image files
- Handles opening of multi-file image files.
- Creation of multi-file image files or disc spanning to specified size
- Many other neat features the OS doesn't offer.
- Comprehensive help file
- Supports an enormous range of image files (see further)
- ...

On top of this, Isobuster interprets CD 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).

IsoBuster now features Language support for 41 languages:

- English, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, German, Icelandic, Greek, Serbian, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Russian, Azerbaijan, Macedonian, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Afrikaans, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Catalan, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Galician, Estonian, Bosnian, Croatian, Turkish, Indonesian, Belarussian, Arabic & Farsi. More Languages will follow.

IsoBuster is easy to use and thoroughly tested.
This application will work under Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP & Windows NT 4.0.
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IsoBuster Release notes:

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IsoBuster is part Freeware and part Shareware.

What does this mean ?

Lots of features of IsoBuster are entirely for free, others need to be paid for.
All the functionality prior to version 1.0 is still for free and remains free.

A lot of knowledge, experience, research and effort has been put into this small but powerful application.
It goes without saying that a registration, even for the free functionality, is appreciated.
Consider it as a contribution to the research. You never know when you will have need for the registration-restricted functionality.
The cost is deliberately kept low to be able to offer a solution to everybody.
High end software at a low price is a major priority for Smart Projects, yet it requires some fair play of everybody to be able to guarantee continuity.

If you install IsoBuster and want to make use of the free functionality only, click the "Free Functionality" button when prompted.
If you run into functionality that needs to be paid for, you will be prompted. There are no hidden features so you need not to wonder what a paid for version would show extra. You can safely install IsoBuster on your system, there are no xx-days limitations to the free use, you may install at work or wherever you like.

FYI, Smart Projects intends to keep adding both registration-restricted and free functionality in future versions.

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