Software update: IsoBuster 3.7

Smart Projects has released the final release of IsoBuster version 3.7. 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. 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:

• Implemented a Breadcrumbs control for easy navigation, with right mouse click Pop-up for easy task selection
• The Breadcrumbs’ edit control also interprets paths you copy in it (with limitations), or can show the current path, for easy copying to the clipboard
• Support for typing in a limited list of commands in the Breadcrumbs’ edit control (@close, @refresh:drives, @stop, @restart, @new, @find:\)
• Ability to turn off TreeView trying to follow selections made in ListView and Breadcrumbs (faster and less memory use due to virtual implementation)
• Elaborate Search functionality (Ctrl+F), to try and find file(s) and/or folder(s) with certain properties in existing file-systems or file lists. Not to be confused with data/file carving functionality to try and find missing files and folders (Ctrl+F3)

Improvements:

• Improved use of, and added a lot more ShortCuts throughout the software
• Different ListView columns layout for search results and ability to show the full path
• Improved display of files and folders in the status bar, during exploration of folders etc.
• Improvement in time stamp display and during file extraction, for files created in a different daylight saving time period
• Ability to reload the drives’ list (Shift+Ctrl+R) and all associated objects (files folders etc.)(To check if USB drives have been inserted or removed)
• Improved the speed of finding a TreeView item exponentially
• Make sure the size of an initial install is not bigger than the screen resolution (on systems with low resolution)
• Workaround for Oracle VM VirtualBox ‘VBOX CD-ROM’ virtual drive that doesn’t return correct information in case the ISO file is big (eg of a DVD)
• Added Main menu item to allow you to Upgrade from a [Personal] license to a [Professional] license
• Allow to properly resize the Properties (Ctrl+I) Window
• Show blocks being read in status bar while doing a scan for missing files and folders
• Added ‘Copy path as text to clipboard’ function (Ctrl+C)
• Quite a few improvements, changes and re-writes in the core code / engine, as this is a living project and to deal with the ever growing new functionality
• Various GUI improvements

Fixes:

• Bugfix for HFS – Not all folder content was shown all the time
• Bugfix for FAT – Big folders covering multiple clusters would sometimes not be explored fully

License typeFreeware/Paid