IsoBuster can rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD or a Blu Ray disc (e.g. BD or HD DVD). Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, etc.

· Data recovery from CD, DVD, BD and HD DVD.
· Better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data anyway.
· The use of alternative ways to get to the data, get the best out of your CD/DVD-ROM drive.
· The use of alternative File-Systems to get to the data, make use of all content.
· CDs stay 'readable' after problems (such as Buffer Under-run).
· Read and Extraction of files, CD/DVD images, tracks and sessions from all optical media.
· Supports : CD-i, VCD, SACD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, ...
· Supports : DVD-ROM, DVCD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD+RW DL, ...
· Supports : DVD+VR, DVD+VRW, DVD-VM, DVD-VR, DVD-VRW, ...
· Supports : BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-R SRM, BD-R RRM, BD-R SRM+POW, BD-R SRM-POW, BDAV, BDMV
· Supports : HD DVD-ROM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL, HD DVD-RAM, HD DVD-Video
· Mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one'.
· Enormous File System coverage and ways to use them all (find the best one for your needs).
· ISO9660, Joliet, Romeo (Short File-names Long File-names on mastered CDs)
· Big Endian (Motorola), Little Endian (Intel) (Windows vs. Unix, Mac and other systems' defaults)
· UDF 1.02 (e.g DVDs), UDF 1.5 (e.g. Packet writing on CD-R and CD-RW), UDF 2.01 - UDF 2.60, ...
· HFS and HFS+, the Apple Mac file system.
· Full Mac properties, Resource Fork and MacBinary extraction support for ISO9660 and Joliet
· Full Mac properties, Resource Fork and MacBinary extraction support for UDF
· Rock Ridge (e.g. for Commodore users, Server use, etc.)
· VIDEO DVD interpretation based on IFO/BUP and VOB files
· Support for the VIDEO +VR standard
· Show and allow to extract the different recordings
· AUDIO DVD interpretation based on IFO/BUP and VOB files.
· Show and allow to extract the Audio recordings/tracks
· Information on and File system properties (must for FS developers)
· Scanning for lost files and folders (UDF, ISO, ...) .
· Find lost data on CD, DVD, BD and HD DVD created discs with drag and drop applications (Direct CD, InCD, DLA, Instant-Write, Drag to disc, ...)
· Find lost pictures created and saved to CD with Mavica or other digital cameras.
· Find lost ISO9660/Joliet sessions
· Find files based on their signature. Ability to change the list of files found based on their signature, add, edit, delete file properties to extract a file where on disc you want.
· Find lost IFO/VOB VIDEO/AUDIO File-Systems
· Find multiple sessions inside a single DVD+RW, DVD-RW, BD-RE or HD DVD-RAM track (e.g. by Nero and Ashampoo on DVD+RW and DVD-RW)
· Auto find extensions based on file content to try and give an appropriate name to an orphaned file.
· Support for Direct CD compressed files.
· Support for blanked DVD+RW media.
· Support for Mount Rainier discs (CD and DVD) in Mount Rainier drives and in none MRW capable drives.
· Automatic detection of Mount Rainier discs and automatic Method 2 and/or 3 remapping if required.
· CD/DVD/BD/HD DVD Surface scan to see if there are physical read errors.
· Check if all files and folders are readable without having to extract to HD.
· Ability to make special image files (*.IBP / *.IBQ) which can be continued if not complete. This allows you to make an image file of a CD/DVD/BD/HD DVD with many different drives, each drive then completes the image file with parts it can read. So if many drives are able to read different sections of a CD or DVD, then you can use them all to complete one image files which then contains *all* (or most) data.
· Compare Image Files with their checksum, provided via *.MD5 files.
· Single sector extraction. Extraction of CD/DVD/BD and HD DVD parts, fit to your needs.
· Sector Viewer. Check a sector's content in IsoBuster's editor and print or save to HD.
· Compile (and edit, save, print) lists of all files that contain physical read errors.
· Compile lists of all files, including their Logical block address (ideal to find the logical play order for mp3 CDs)
· CD-Text support from CD, *.PXI, *.CCD and *.CUE image files.
· Creation of image files (*.iso, *.bin, *.tao)
· Creation of cuesheet files (*.cue)
· Creation of checksum files (*.MD5) for image files.
· Conversion of image files
· Handles opening of multi-file image files.
· Creation of multi-file image files or disc spanning to specified size
· Many other neat features the OS doesn't offer.
· Comprehensive help file
· Supports an enormous range of image files (see further)
· Automatic Online check to see if there is a newer version available.

Changes:
· Plugin support for IsoBuster: Opening image files
· Plugin support for IsoBuster: Creating image files
· Installing and/or loading plugins via the GUI and command line parameters
· Support for multi-file CUE sheets & PREGAP directive
· Wave file support when loading multi-file CUE sheets
· Support for *.RMG Image files

Improvements:
· Escape sequence in HFS support to deal with HFS bug so that certain HFS file-systems can still be found
· Add file-extensions only when no file extension is present yet for files in the HFS(+) file system
· Updated the HFS extensions database
· Workarounds for buggy ISO9660 file systems created by professional DVD mastering software (affecting commercial DVDs)
· Improved IFO/VOB file system finding in case of badly mastered Video DVDs
· Show layer break address
· Various other GUI improvements

Fixes:
· Fix so that CD-Text is shown again when present in a CDT file (associated to a CUE file)

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