Software Update: IsoBuster 2.6 Beta

Smart Projects released a new beta release of IsoBuster on Friday. 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. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Changes:

• Unicode support via all aspects of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), Dialogs etc.
• Full Unicode support during the installation (eg install Chinese on a US system etc.)

Improvements:

• Ability to select text encoding (Unicode, ANSI, UTF8, ..) when saving text from the editor window
• Ability to select text encoding (Unicode, ANSI, UTF8, ..) when saving file-system data (eg file-list) to a text file
• Implemented *.qic file-type recognition for found files based on their signature
• During extraction of *.M2TS files, and when there’s an error, the replace with zero block option is now available
• Added support for localized Bytes / KB / MB / GB / TB when displaying a byte size (for instance in the right panel)
• Implemented a workaround for badly mastered Roxio (Retrieve) UDF discs, possibly in combination with spanning several discs
• Various other GUI improvements

Fixed:

• Fixed rare and not likely to happen crash during scanning for missing files and folders on a particular dataset where structures resembled FAT but were not.

IsoBuster screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.