IsoBuster is intended to rescue files lost due to multiple causes, like accidental deletion, corrupted partition and virus attacks. The program supports practically any type of storage device, including optical discs, memory cards, USB drives and hard disks. Likewise, it can open an impressive list of image file extensions. It is good news that it supports not only Windows file systems (FAT and NTFS) but others as well.
The program does an excellent job of extracting contents from optical discs that are not in an optimum state. This includes playing audio from damaged analog CDs. Moreover, it has the advantage of supporting managed image files, which eliminates the necessity of extracting all the contents of a disc. The tool can also perform surface scans and mark defective blocks, which can later be filled manually.
All in all, IsoBuster provides an effective way to recover lost data irrespective of the original storage device and file system. In this respect, the program is more powerful than others. In my opinion, its main weakness is still its interface, which makes it inappropriate for inexperienced users. Moreover, I think that the tool would be complete if it allowed backing up partitions as ISO files, something that is possible with other data recoverers. The product is shareware and can be evaluated at no cost. However, some of its features are restricted, such as recovering files and viewing a sector.
v5.0 [Jul 10, 2022]
Changes / New:
- A 64 bit version.
- High DPI scaling and 4K/8K monitor support, crisp display at higher DPI instead of blurry fonts etc..
- Dark Theme / Style support (Select under Options \ GUI \ Styles). Currently two dark and one light styles are included, but there's an option to use any other compatible VCL-Style out there, or you could make your own.
- Automatic switching between dark and light theme, depending on the system setting.
- Per monitor scaling.
- Panasonic DMR-BWT835 and DMR-BWT730 DVR/PVR support.
Improvements:.
- LibEWF version 20130416 updated to version 20140608.
- Improvements for setting or resetting the image file associations in Options (Image Files / Supported Image File extensions).
- Put back previous image file associations if possible, on reset or uninstall.
- Improved scanning for Panasonic DVR/PVR file systems.
- Panasonic and Pioneer DVR/PVR file/folder name entries are now considered UTF8.
- Multi-File Multi-Session CUE files without a LEAD-OUT entry (even though faulty) are now supported.
- Plenty of other GUI improvements.
Fixes:
- Fixed an Exception Error that could happen while parsing certain IFO file systems on DVD.
- Fixed a Stack Overflow (IsoBuster would simply shut down) on highly fragmented files in the UDF file system.
- Fixed an issue that the 'Open File' Dialog didn't default to *.* when the CUE file didn't contain a file path.
- Fixed it so that CUE files without a quoted file/path still work properly.
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