Software update: IsoBuster 1.4

Smart Projects has provided IsoBuster with a new version which has been given the number 1.4. The program is described as the program to recover CD/DVD data. You can perfectly read CDs and DVDs that are no longer recognized by your OS, in addition you can read many CD images such as CDRWin, CloneCD, Nero, Prassi and DiscJuggler images. The changelog informs us of the following changes:

New:

• Sector Viewer
  • Ability to look at every individual sector and see the content (normal or raw)
  • Ability to save as *.rtf or *.txt file
  • Ability to print every sector content
• Support for Pinnacle Image files (*.PDI)
• Map Erroneous sectors during scanning for lost UDF files and folders.
• Indicate if files contain errors or not after scanning.
  • By means of a list
  • By means of an extra icon next to every file
  • Extra options to request that list
• Auto-scan function to find extensions for orphaned (nameless) files after UDF scan
• CD/DVD Surface scan routine to find physical errors.
• Check if all files are physically readable without having to extract them somewhere.
• The CD/DVD icon now also nicely mentions if the media is : DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW or DVD-RAM
• CD/DVD Properties Window shows amount of layers.

Improvements:

• UDF file-system improvement for Pioneer CE player created VR discs.
• Take in account badly mastered UDF with dead loop directory references (eg DirA contains DirB contains DirA again)
• Improve robustness and implement workarounds for corrupt UDF systems containing bogus data in certain critical fields.
• More logging features by default enabled to do analysis.
• Small changes for future devices (cfr. more recent MMC specifications)
• Small GUI improvements.
• Sanitizing data after scanning for lost UDF files or folders speeded up in case the directory data contains many errors.
• Improvement to not conflict with certain card reader drivers under Windows 2K and XP

Bug fixes:

• Switching between SPTI and ASPI could cause problems under WinXP and Win2K.