Software update: IsoBuster 3.6

Smart Projects has released IsoBuster version 3.6. 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. Which exactly those are, is up this page to find. Since version 3.0, the program can also handle all other internal and external storage media, such as hard drives, USB sticks and memory cards. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Changes / New:

• Support for the Linux EXT file system
• Support for Rimage mastered CD/DVD discs with manifest file
• Support for Nintendo GameCube file system
• Support for GEMDOS / Atari – ST FAT12-16 variant
• Support for High Sierra on CD-ROM (the predecessor to ISO9660)
• Implemented internal device caching, especially used during File System recognition. Many file systems start from similar addresses. Caching avoids having to re-read blocks for every file-system that is checked
• Detect if the Nintendo Wii file system is present and show an icon for it
• Detect if the Linux RomFS file system is present and show an icon for it
• Detect if the Unix/Linux JFS file system is present and show an icon for it
• Detect if the Unix/Linux ZFS file system is present and show an icon for it
• Detect if the Unix/Linux Minix file system is present and show an icon for it
• Detect if the Linux BtrFS file system is present and show an icon for it

Detect if the Linux SquashFS file system is present and show an icon for it

• Detect if the Linux CramFS file system is present and show an icon for it
• [Professional]
• Detect if the Linux BeFS (BFS) file system is present and show an icon for it [Professional]
• Detect if the Microsoft ReFS file system is present and show an icon for it New and much faster way to find deleted files and folders in an NTFS file system
• Full exploration of this file system is not implemented but now an investigator can see if it is presentImprovements:
• Extra tests to make sure a child folder doesn’t have subfolders that are a parent folder, creating circular links, in buggy or recovered file systems
• Added a ‘Paranoid mode’ when creating managing IBP/IBQ image files, to make sure all data is flushed to the destination without system caching, and structures are updated regularly
• Allow to complete a managed image file from media of which the layout doesn’t fully match, but the risk is manageable Allow to complete a managed image file from another non-managed image fileImproved speed when updating the IBP managed image file
• Added various extraction type switches via the [ADS] command line
• : /ET: A, IBP, WAV, RAW, R2U, RUN, DLL
• Added new file system switches via the
• command line
• : /EF: see the various newly implemented file systems
• Added Pinnacle Studio mastered DVDs to the IFO/VOB recognition sequence (“PCLE UDFLib”)
• Added ability (via right mouse click) to see the properties-window-text as text in a memo field (for easy copy and paste)
• Support for underscores in function names in the
• libewf.dll
• so that Borland bcc32 built dlls can be used as well
• Always display FileName:StreamName, with or without
• appended, for NTFS Alternate Data Streams
• Removed registration dialog nag when doing a surface scan on BD media
• Improvements in the Extract From-To functionality, dialog and warnings
• Make sure testing for encrypted partitions only happens once, not every time the visual node is created (eg when switching devices in GUI)
• Do not read extra blocks to test for partition encryption if there are enough cached blocks
• Updated the ‘Agent’ string when doing an online query, to check for a new version, to be more compatible with modern servers and systems
• Reverse the order of AVDP parsing, LBA 512 first rather than 256 first, in case of a CeQuadrat made UDF disc, to deal with CeQuadrat UDF bugs
• Get the proper volume name for CeQuadrat made UDF CD-R discs
• After an image file has been made, save its filename to the recently opened image files, so that it can be opened immediately from the recent image files’ list Improved .GI image file interpretation, specifically improvements in finding the header size Show files and folders with the System property in another color
• Show special files, file entries that are not used in the classical way by Unix/Linux file systems, in another color
• Show Windows overlay icons and add the shortcut overlay icon to EXT symbolic link files

Added checkbox to options to uncheck using CD-Text in filenames, when audio tracks are extracted

• The file-exists dialog now also allows to auto-rename a file, instead of over-writing or ignoring the file (non-Windows file systems allow duplicate but caps-sensitive names in the same folder)
• New dialog to auto-rename filenames that are illegal in Windows but OK in other non-Windows file systems
• Auto-rename folders, during extraction, when they contain illegal Windows-filename characters or a Windows-reserved file/folder name.
• Show Endianess in UFS, XFS, ISO and SquashFS and other File System properties
• Improvements in drag&drop functionality and the use of the temporary folder. Better clean up afterwards
• Possibility to always get the
• RETRY SELECT ABORT

Release statusFinalOperating systemsWindows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10WebsiteSmart ProjectsDownloadFile size3.93MBLicense typeFreeware/Paid