This is the version history page for IsoBuster, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here. Index:
- Version 4.5 (Dec 29, 2019)
- Version 4.4 (Jun 18, 2019)
- Version 4.3 (Dec 19, 2018)
- Version 4.2 (Jun 24, 2018)
- Version 4.2 Beta (Jun 8, 2018)
- Version 4.1 Beta (Nov 30, 2017)
- Version 4.0 (Jun 29, 2017)
- Version 3.9 (Dec 20, 2016)
- Version 3.8 (Jun 25, 2016)
- Version 3.7 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Version 3.7 Beta (Dec 9, 2015)
- Version 3.6 (Jun 20, 2015)
- Version 3.5 (Dec 12, 2014)
- Version 3.5 Beta (Nov 26, 2014)
- Version 3.4 (Aug 23, 2014)
- Version 3.3 (Dec 13, 2013)
- Version 3.3 Beta (Nov 28, 2013)
- Version 3.2 (May 14, 2013)
- Version 3.2 Beta (Apr 6, 2013)
- Version 3.1 (Dec 15, 2012)
Version 4.5
- Release Date: Dec 29, 2019
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Changes / New: - Ability to resume a scan for missing files and folders, if the content is still shown
- Ability to save scan results (as *.ibr files)
- Ability to load previous (*.ibr) scan results and resume the scan if so desired
- Ability to import XML formatted lists of files and folders (if you happen to know where the files are physically located on the medium)
- Support for more type Philips HDD recorders (DVR-3500)
- Support for Brother typewriter *.256 floppy images that use a primitive FAT like file system
- Ability to extract search results (files and folders) but preserve their relative path instead of creating a flat list of all found files and folders
Improvements: - Rewrote parts of the ISO9660 parsing to get rid of the annoying memory allocation warnings in case of extremely large buffer allocations
- Hide the annoying 'out of spec' errors for severe ISO9660 'out of spec' situations by default
- ISO9660 Scan options now features showing both 'soft' and 'severe' 'out of spec' errors
- Support for NCR_DIAGS' butchered ISO9660 version
- Support for ISO9660 implementations that are not 2048 bytes-per-sector based. They're extremely rare but I managed to find an image file
- Various other ISO9660 (and its derivatives) related improvements
- When finding HDD / SSM / USB etc is not set in options and IsoBuster is not running elevated, the moment finding such devices is enabled, IsoBuster will ask to run elevated. The prompt asking to restart now allows to restart without saving current selection. This is so that once a normal user has gone through this, the application will not automatically want to elevate next time as well, because once elevated, changes in options are made for the elevated user and not for the normal user
- Recognize Amiga floppy images *.adf, *.adz, *.dms and *.fdi as 512-byte block disk images rather than CD images
- Support Image file extensions *.512, *.256 and *.128, which forces IsoBuster to treat the image file using that block size
- When opening a *.CDT, *.ISO or *.BIN image file, IsoBuster now first looks for a *.CUE file with the same name in the same folder, and if it exists IsoBuster opens the CUE instead
- Address input fields now also support notation x.. (aside from already supported 0x.. and ..h) to input hex data
- Implemented tag <%OBJECTS> in the file export functionality to be able to show how many files+folders a folder contains
- Implemented tags <%ATTRIB(U)>, <%TYPE(U)>, <%UIC> in the file export functionality to be able to show properties/attributes that are language independent (Uniform)
- Revert to Lucida Console, for the mono-spaced font in Sector View, in the odd case that Courier is not installed (As seen with WinPE)
- Improved the breadcrumb GUI under certain borderline conditions, for instance under, but not limited to, Wine on Ubuntu etc.
- Plenty of other 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 other GUI improvements
Fixes: - Fixed bug that caused the (right mouse click invoked) Search dialog to always find all objects rather than the objects identifying with the requested search parameter (Not the search control in top right corner)
- Fixed exception error that can happen when a CUE is paired with a file who's size is not an exact multiple of the block size mentioned in the CUE
- Fixed it so that text file parsing also works on UCS-2 BE (UTF16 Big Endian (aka byte swapped / Motorola)) formatted data
- Fixed bug so that tags <%>> and <%>=> are properly recognized
- Fixed exception error that could occur when the scan for missing files and folders was immediately aborted, even before actual reading started
- Fixed not finding all files and folders (depending from image to image) in an El Torito embedded FAT boot image
- Fixed HFS and MFS file and folder date and time stamps (Issue introduced in IsoBuster 4.3)
Version 4.4
- Release Date: Jun 18, 2019
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Changes / New: - Support for Toshiba HDD recorders (RD-XS32, RD-XS52, RD-XS34, RD-XV34, RD-XS54, RD-XS35, RD-XS55)
- Support for Pioneer HDD recorders (DVR-510, DVR-520, DVR-530, DVR-630, DVR-531, DVR-533, DVR-633, DVR-540, DVR-543, DVR-640, DVR-450, DVR-550, DVR-650, DVR-555, DVR-460, DVR-560, DVR-660, LX60D, LX61D, LX70)
- Support for Sony HDD recorders that mimic (or under the hood are) Pioneers (RDR-HX750, RDR-HX780)
- Support for Panasonic HDD recorders (DMR-E80H, DMR-E100H, DMR-E85H, DMR-E96H, DMR-E500H, DMR-EH50, DMR-EH60, DMR-EH55, DMR-EH75V, DMR-EH55, DMR-EH75, DMR-EH58, DMR-EH68, DMR-EH59, DMR-EH69, DMR-BS750, DMR-BS850, DMR-BS780, DMR-BS880, DMR-BS785, DMR-BS885) (MEIHDFS)
- Support for Philips HDD recorders (DVDR-3575H, DVDR-3576H) (HDDFS)
- Support for Magnavox HDD recorders (H2160MW9, MDR-513H, MDR-515H, MDR-533H, MDR-535H, MDR-537H, MDR-557H) (HDDFS)
- Support for RCA DRC8030N HDD recorder
- Support for LiteOn HDD recorders (LVW-5045, ILO DVDRHD04)
- Support for Medion MD 81888 HDD recorder (which is really a LiteOn under the hood)
- It is entirely possible that other Sony, Medion, LG or other brand drives should be listed here as well if they are rebranded models from above list
- The IBP/IBQ Image file manager can now Import and Export lists of sectors for super easy engineering
- Option to find and enumerate optical drives with media that is not CD, DVD, BD media with tracks and sessions, such as MO and PD media that contains partitions and generic non-optical file systems
- Support for the Atari ST *.st image file
Improvements: - Ability to clone to a device with different block size. For instance from a virtualized 2K device to a 512-byte device
- Added "Offset:", "StreamCnt:", "ExtentCnt:", "MemberCnt:" and "UnreadableCnt:" to the Search bar functionality
- Improved 'ESC' key use during dialogs that have a default action defined
- The 'F5' key now always refreshes the content, no matter what IsoBuster object is selected (Tree or ListView or ...)
- 'F5' or the Refresh button clicked during a 'Find' will ask if Find can be interrupted or not
- 'F5' or the Refresh button clicked when recovered file systems are present will ask for confirmation
- Ctrl-Shift 'D' Toggles CD/DVD Open/Close tray or Image file close
- Allow more custom defined export lists (20 instead of 10)
- Implemented support for a fragmented DVD-VR's MNGR IFO file
- Do not consider a MS virtual CD/DVD drive an old style SCSI device (affects type of SCSI commands being used)
- Changed the Manual retry approach on erroneous sectors to keep the dialog up while retrying
- Small DVD-VR vs. HDD-VR detection improvements
- Improvement for bad behaving drivers that report incorrect byte alignment requirements. Seen on Tablet PCs with 32GB eMMC
- Implemented Tree export commands {%ONLYREADABLE}, {%ONLYUNREADABLEBLOCKS}, {%ONLYSELF}, {%ISO8601(D)}, <%READABLE> to the file export functionality
- Reports can now use <%%(F)> and <%TOT%(F)> to show 2 digits behind the comma for the percentage of readable blocks
- Implemented Tree export commands {%BLOCKS}, {%BLOCK} and <%BLOCKLOOP> to the file export functionality to be able to build lists of blocks per object
- Implemented Tree export command {%BLOCKSINRANGES} to the file export functionality to display ranges rather than a single address on every line (when exporting {%BLOCKS})
- Implemented Tree export commands <%IF>, <%DO>, <%ELSE> and <%ENDIF> but also <%CI>, <%WC>, <%RE>, <%=>, <%>>, <% <>, <%>=> and <% <=> to the file export functionality to be able to generate conditional text based on the object's properties
- Keep track of GEMDOS created FAT 12/16 FS via the file system <%CREATOR> field and the file system Properties dialog
- Give (debug) *.ibadr and *.ibdat files a unique name so that files don't get overwritten all the time.
- Improved breadcrumb control GUI when using the classic theme
- Improved breadcrumb control functionality on Windows 2000
- IsoBuster can allocate even more memory now (on 64 bit systems) and is easily able to deal with millions of objects
- Plenty of other 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 other GUI improvements
Fixes: - Make sure command line parameter /d:* works again
- Fixed the FAT file system's use of the FAT-table (and because of it the ability to find extents) when the device blocksize is 512 and the FAT-native blocksize is 4096 (should actually not be a real life situation, but encountered during development)
- Fixed high contrast (for the vision impaired) for all OS and use the best color for the Breadcrumb control
- Fixed a rare crash when scanning for lost UDF files and folders
- Fixed a hard to reproduce hang when exploring folders in TreeView while a Search was in progress that also wanted to expand the same folder
Version 4.3
- Release Date: Dec 19, 2018
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I'm happy to announce the release of IsoBuster 4.3. This version features full support for the XFS file system. Exploring, extracting, finding missing files and folders etc. Also new in this version is the support for brand new file extensions *.1Kn, *.2Kn, *.4Kn, *.8Kn and so on (instead of the generic *.dsk for instance). The naming convention has been inspired by the "Advanced Format (4K native)". Basically when IsoBuster now creates a generic block per block image file of a drive that natively contains more than 512 bytes per block, it uses the appropriate extensions: *.1Kn - *.64Kn. In practice (because I haven't seen any other situation) you will encounter this on 4Kn drives (4096 bytes per block: *.4Kn) and Plasmon UDO2 drives (8192 bytes per block: *.8Kn). The beauty is that now any application immediately knows what the correct sector size is inside the generic image. IsoBuster's heuristic routines to determine the sector size by itself are unparalleled, and improved once again in this version, so IsoBuster doesn't really need it, but it will make life easier for everyone and it's ideal for images that contain data that doesn't 100% correlate to a specific sector size. Global adoption of this straightforward extension naming convention will be a step forward dealing with generic more-than-512-bytes-sector image files. But that is not all. As usual there are plenty of improvements, a few fixes and other new functionality, such as dealing with RAID and LVM data structures, WBFS and so on. Changes / New: - Full support for the XFS file system
- Recognition and support for RAID 1 structures inside a partition, to find the file systems within
- Recognition and support for LVM (Linux' Logical Volume Manager) inside a partition, to find the file systems within
- WBFS partition support. Shows what images are stored in a WBFS partition
- Open *.wbfs files and show the images that are stored in the file
- Full support for 8KB (8192 bytes-per-block) devices such as Plasmon UDO2 drive etc.
- Introduction and use of *.1Kn, *.2Kn, *.4Kn, *.8Kn, ... file extensions for disk images of drives with higher than 512 bytes per sector
Improvements: - Improved detection of the proper block size in image files based on partition and file system data
- Optimized HFS Partition parsing to deal with both native-blocksize Partition Map entries and 512-byte Partition Map entries
- Implemented DICOM signatures in finding files based on their signature (Found during a scan for missing files and folders)
- Create a UDF File system when we have a valid VRS, AVDP and VDS. Even when the FSD is absent. So that the user knows there's at least UDF present
- Make sure the UDF VRS sequence also works on higher-than-2K-sectors when VRS structures are located in their own physical block rather than every 2K (For instance: Plasmon UDO2 drive with 30GB UDO disk vs. MS UDF on 4KN drives)
- Open Image file drop functionality now also works when a file is dropped on the ListView (right pane) or breadcrumb control (top)
- Implemented work-around to still load FAT (on USB sticks for instance) when the first x bytes of the BPB have been erased (by an unknown process / application)
- Support format *.s01 again (disabled in previous version) after extensive testing to confirm that it works
- Show "Managed Clone", not just "Managed Image File" where and when relevant. Changes in various screens and dialogues
- Repaint TreeView icons if hovered over, to update the object's status (should it have been expanded already during a different process (e.g. Search))
- *.dd images are now always treated as 'not optical' (to avoid loading as optical (tracks / sessions) if nothing meaningful can be found inside)
- Ability to always confirm the destination drive of a managed clone
- Show the destination drive in the managed image clone completion confirmation dialogue
- Improved progress dialog when creating and completing managed image files / clones
- Improved Managed Image File and Managed Clone Properties dialogue
- Ability to suppress write error messages (OK to all) during the making of a managed image file or clone (for instance when completing on demand on media that is not big enough to hold the full range)
- Make sure write errors, during the creation or completion of a managed image file or clone, are marked as bad sectors, even though the read on the source media was successful
- Implemented "Limit:" keyword for search, so that the search can be limited to 'limit' count of matches (for instance *|Limit:10 )
- Added command {%SELF} to the export functionality to also include information of the target file system itself (for instance to display the root's extents)
- Added command {%DATETIME(NA)=EMPTY} to the file export functionality to return an empty string instead of "N/A" on objects with an invalid or missing date-time property
- Added tag <%TAB> to the file export functionality to easily add tab characters to the output
- Plenty of other 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 other GUI improvements
Fixes: - If IsoBuster is started idle, without auto-selecting a drive, attaching or removing a drive doesn't change that state anymore
- Fixed exception error when displaying a popup menu without any drives present or selected (under certain conditions)
- Improvements in time and date display because negative second values are possible in Unix / Linux file systems
- Do not abort on empty GPT partition table entries, continue checking instead (finds more partitions in some cases)
- Fixed {%LT} and {%ISO8601} leaving a "}" character behind in an exported list
Version 4.2
Version 4.2 Beta
- Release Date: Jun 8, 2018
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IsoBuster 4.2 Beta Released! June 08, 2018 I'm very happy to announce the Beta release of IsoBuster 4.2.
As always it's a long list of improvements and new stuff. But I'll let the list speak for itself. Here are all the goodies:
Changes / New:
Rewrote the options dialog to look fresh and most importantly te be decluttered and intuitive again. Added to that, selecting a language or changing a font now changes all options' text immediately, so that you can see the effect Added BDXL, M-Disc, UHD, Triple Layer (TL) and (Quadruple Layer) QL BD(RE) disc support Ability to start IsoBuster 'idle' without any drive auto-selected (not the default but can be set in Options) Search (now by default) searches the entire region of the selected object, and not just the most relevant File System. For instance when a Session is selected, all tracks and file systems in those tracks will be searched and not just the most relevant file system in the most relevant track. The old way can still be turned on again in options Work around for issue (most likely a buggy USB bridge driver) that causes less bytes to be transfered when reading raw (2352 bytes per block) on some systems Ability to specify where the IBQ range ends, to influence filling gaps and where finishing at the end starts [Professional license] Implemented more flavours of Rimage Image files (*.rmg) Show text portions of certain Image files via an extra option in the main menu (e.g. for: *.cue, *.rmg, *.ewf, *.ccd) Rewrote the file export / report functionality to make it much faster, 10 times faster or more than before Rewrote CUE file parsing to better deal with multi-file images and improve the overall functionality Improvements:
Make sure the correct encoding is always used for XML, RTF and TXT in the Edit Window (TXT is now the default over RTF, using UTF8) Allow any extension, if more appropriate, when saving a file from the edit window Improved search functionality engine for even faster and more accurate search results Improved resolving of a path copied in the breadcrumb control / edit bar, to show the proper object(s) Do not display "Processing File-System" when mounting an Audio CD Show better caption on the extraction dialog when cloning a drive or partition Better detection of Atari DOS discs/images Improve display of Mac 'Type' and 'Creator', in case of illegal (non-printable) characters Allow reading in the first pregap on a CD (addresses -150 to -1), for instance with Sector View Implemented a more generic approach to store and use the ISO9660 / Joliet 'associated file'. The associated file is used as resource fork on Mac created discs but can in theory also exist on its own, for other implementations. We now treat it as a stream and also extract it as such Added tags {%ASCII} and {%ANSI} to the file (encoding) export functionality Added tags {%SUID} and {%PSUID} as unique object identifiers to the file export functionality Added tags <%TSNSHT> and <%TSNSHRESET> to measure time of certain processes to the file export functionality Added tags {%DFXML}, {%ISO8601}, <%TIMEDATETZ> and <%SYSTIMEDATETZ> to support ISO 8601 date and time formatting (which is required in DFXML exports) Always escape single and double quotes in XML exports, but the caller can disable this with commands {%ASQ} and/or {%ADQ} Always escape '<' and '>' characters in XML exports, but the caller can disable this with commands {%A>} and/or {%A<} Added tag {%ONLYUNREADABLE} to only log unreadable objects in file exports Changed the export logic so that width is now explored first rather than the depth, but it can be changed with {%DEPTHFIRST} or {%FLAT} Default, folders are now also exported in File Lists / Reports Changed the embedded XML export list, to take advantage of new commands and tags Changed the embedded DFXML export list, to take advantage of new commands and tags Replace single quotes by double quotes in the predefined XML layout, so that files with single quotes (and apostrophe) do not cause problems parsing the XML Show text in combobox control when no drives are found but finding them has been disabled in options, so that you better realizes what is going on Improved display of the application when starting up and when certain devices are slow to respond (Show "Finding Devices" in combobox meanwhile) Add Catalogue and ISRC to the CUE file (if present / per track) Display ISRC per track and Catalogue per CD, in properties, even when no CD-Text is present Add (and retrieve) more CD-Text to/from CUE files If the ISO is smaller than what the CUE suggests, the last track will still get a minimum size (2 seconds = 150 blocks) so that the track is shown with errors If the ISO / BIN image file is too small for what the CUE describes we immediately update the sector bitmap so that the effect can be seen in the blocks map (for instance via properties) Make sure there's a red X displayed next to a session icon as well, when one of its tracks contains unreadable sectors Improved NTFS parsing speed and efficiency by not going deep automatically on embedded folders, by retaining the required information differently, until exploring the folder is requested (via display, extract, search or ..) Considerable speed improvements when opening *.ibdat and *.ibadr files, by keeping track of bad ranges Made IBP/IBQ image file reading in case of erroneous sectors 5 to 15 times faster Made searching for missing files and folders in an IBP/IBQ image with lots of errors up to 26 times faster Display grey blocks in the blocks map, for ranges beyond the bitmap readable range (as in when an IBP/IBQ has not yet been fully read) Improve blocks map hints when the address range is contiguous Deselect the last square in the blocks map when moving outside the squares (but still inside the control) Zoom-in via double click on the blocks map squares shown in properties [Professional license] Sector View via double click on a single-sector square in the blocks map (e.g. via object properties) [Professional license] Double clicking middle or right mouse buttons zooms out again Added commands /cfpr /fs and /el on the command line Speed improvement when reading audio from 2352 bytes per block image files Expose relevant NTFS extent properties. For instance to show extents of compressed files as compressed (blue) ListView icons also reflect the compressed or encrypted state of an object Sparse parts of a file or folder are shown in a light blue color Clear what we know about the destination drive's content after making a clone, since its content will have changed entirely, so a refresh is needed Support hex notation ..h (for instance FFFFh or aah) aside from the already supported 0x.. notation in address and length input fields Also show CD/DVD/BD properties on blank media Plenty of other 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 other GUI improvements Fixes:
Fixed issue causing the online help to not always show the correct page Fixed sorting issue that only really showed when exploring the root of ISO9660 or derivative file systems Properly detect audio in the first track's pregap inside an image so that reading raw in the pregap doesn't trigger completing the sync bytes, or fails entirely <%SYSTIMELAPSEDSEC> in File Lists / Reports was calculated wrongly (with a factor 100) Fixed it so that the MD5 is automatically created again after making an image file if that is how it is set in options Do not create an MD5 or CUE after making a clone, if that is what is set in options after making an image file Fixed issue introduced in IB 4.1 for NTFS files that are highly fragmented. The full file size would not be taken in account for files consisting of more than 22,799 extents. Now tests with +1,507,519 extents worked perfectly Fixed the edit window toolbar height changing slightly every time the window was shown again Fixed rare issue that truncated the size of a file (with a few bytes), when extracting (audio) blocks using From-To functionality and wrapping the data in a WAVE RIFF header Fixed image file generation and overal handling of audio discs when track 1 does not start on address 0
Version 4.1 Beta
- Release Date: Nov 30, 2017
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IsoBuster 4.1 Beta Released! November 29, 2017
I'm very happy to announce the Beta release of IsoBuster 4.1.
This version is exciting because it offers a new tool to make reports and export lists of the found files and folders. Perhaps not entirely new, since a version of it existed already in previous versions, but enhanced so much that it feels new at least. And then there's the possibility to create your own list layouts, also via the GUI etc.
But there's more. Besides old Mac FAT-12 style MFS file system support as well as the image file types that store this type of content there are a great number of improvements and a few bug fixes again.
Here's a list of all the goodies:
Changes / New:
Added XML style export when creating lists/reports starting from a file-system or folder Added (Digital Forensics) DFXML style export when creating lists/reports starting from a file-system or folder Support for MFS (Macintosh File System) which was used prior to HFS, mainly on 400KB and 800KB floppies Support for DC42 image files, which are old style Mac floppy image files Ability to define your own style lists/reports and create/export them from the GUI Help (F1) now goes online and shows the online help in your brower. The help file is still installed as well and online help can be turned off in options GUI option to display all time stamps in GMT / UTC Improvements:
Catch PC going to sleep and wake-up messages and delay auto-finding and removing of drives for 10 seconds after waking up, so that external drives get the chance to be found again. Otherwise (overnight) scan results may be removed again when the PC wakes up (after having gone to sleep), because the drive was dismounted due to the sleep process Do not ignore slack space between partitions smaller than 2048 blocks anymore. Assign it to a new partition for easy inspecting, searching etc. Improved read caching mechanisms Make sure that Main Menu text used to display loaded image file properties is translated, when the language is changed via options Repaint block map in the Managed Image File Manager ([Professional] functionality) when F5 is clicked Ability to select multiple blocks in the block map, to see the range it spans Ability to select multiple blocks in the block map that is part of the Managed Image File Manager, to perform actions on that range Keep polling blank media, because sometimes a drive reports blank media while it is still mounting the disc Improvements setting the font in the Edit window and better support for different monospace fonts Improved sizing of the Drive Combobox on application start, so that it works properly for all fonts and shows the items fully Improvements dealing with inactive NTFS INDX records and test their content for duplicate files or folders Do not automatically go deep on (embedded) folders that are listed in inactive NTFS INDX records Optimized allocating memory for large NTFS folders Hide raw type extraction (via right-mouse-click) on media that does not support raw Hide the right-mouse-click extents icon when there are no multiple extents Remove strange long waits for the right-mouse-click-popup to appear after lots of objects (especially folders) have been found Shows ISRC in Track Properties (when available) Check if there is enough free space before extracting files etc. and put up a dialog if there is an issue (not enough free space) Use CD-Text (if available) for filenames when extraction audio tracks from CD Added a plethora of new tags and commands to the existing command line functionality to export lists Resource forks are now also always Streams, which is important to know when doing searches, exporting lists etc. Made sure the block map also properly shows bad blocks when they fall outside the range of the blocks bitmap Show the amount of streams and extents in the right-mouse-click popup on files and folders, if present, to easily spot the exact amount Lots of 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 other, not listed, GUI improvements Fixes:
On huge media, e.g. >= 4TB, and under certain conditions, displaying the block map would pop-up a division by zero error Sometimes, depending on the content, parsing NTFS would not always work correctly on 4Kn drives (drives with 4096 byte sectors) While searching for deleted NTFS files and folders it was possible to get stuck if a deleted folder was both a child and (great) parent, causing a never ending loop Under certain conditions, starting multiple extractions could cause memory issues on the stack, resulting into an exception error Fix for CD-i (for RTF files for instance) where sometimes the tail end of the file would be missing (if (partially) located on 2324-bytes sectors) Fixed it so that the block map is properly refreshed after filling gaps via the Managed Image File Manager Fixed Access Violation while extracting a certain illegal NTFS file (freak situation: deleted, embedded, file for which fixup was not set, and only seen one case ... ever)
Version 4.0
- Release Date: Jun 29, 2017
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Changes / New: - Huge changes to the GUI to keep up with current and newer OS
- Added very powerful search functionality immediately accessible via the main window
- Added pre-defined search queries. For instance search for pictures, video etc.
- Detect whether drives are added or removed from the system and automatically update the drive selection combobox without affecting the currently selected drive or image file
- Automatic drive add or removal detection can be enabled / disabled in Options (On by default)
- Ability to show graphical representation of good vs bad blocks on all objects, files, partitions, tracks etc via the Properties dialog
- Good vs bad blocks are also shown in the Managed Image File Manager [Professional license]. Here it is possible to select a block or zoom into the block and auto-fill the Address and Blocks' fields to easily define what blocks need to be re-read etc.
- Added easy history browsing via the breadcrumbs control
Improvements: - Improved opening image files while another process (Refreshing) is ongoing
- Improved checking if a file is already opened, no matter what method is used to open the file
- A managed clone will detect when its target drive is connected to the system
- Avoid trying to read PathTable found ISO9660/Joliet folders without a size again and again in case of read errors
- Huge changes in the underlying GUI code/engine to be able to keep up with modern OS and prepare for the future
- Improved the search engine dramatically to be extremely powerful. Easily find fragmented files, extents, streams, etc. etc.
- Improved message boxes
- Improved breadcrumbs control so that is behaves similar than modern OS
- Improved image file (ISO, IMG, VDI, IBP/IBQ, ...) access and reading, for most type images files, so that it is a lot faster now
- Show Media in the breadcrumb bar when selecting a drive (or when starting up with a drive)
- Show NTFS File System Root properties
- Better filtering of illegal characters from devices names
- Chosing large fonts also auto-selects the use of larger icons
- Double clicking a Partition, Track or Session in ListView now also shows its children in ListView (except for Audio CDs)
- File systems are listed in ListView as well, when the track or partition in selected in the TreeView
- Easy way via ListView to start a scan for missing files and folders, when a partition without file systems is selected
- Ability to right mouse click and show a file's resource fork
- Updated file system icons
- Avoid excessive IBP updating, mainly when completing on demand
- Lots of 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 other, not listed, GUI improvements
Fixes: - Do not allow to select a new device via the back and forward (history) buttons when critical GUI List/Tree Item processes are ongoing
- Fix it so that a check to see if a file contains video keeps returning consistent data after for instance Extract2Mpg has been chosen
- Fixed rare stack overflow when exploring NTFS, in case of many small nested folders
- Fix and return consistent data after an NTFS search for deleted files/folders when sorting is turned off entirely
Version 3.9
- Release Date: Dec 20, 2016
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Changes / New: - You can now define your own rules/signatures for finding files based on their signature [Professional license]
- Added support for Windows 10 transparent system compressed NTFS files
- Added a WIM Tab to NTFS File properties, when the file is actually stored in a WIM [Professional license]
- Clone an entire drive (partitions and all) or a single partition, to another Hard Drive or partition
- Perform a so called 'Managed' Clone of a drive (partitions and all) to another Hard Drive. This is the same as making a managed IBP but the IBQ is written to a source Hard Disk instead of a file [Professional license]
- Support for the Opera 3DO file system
- Support for B6T and B6I image files
- Clicking an address in the Properties window launches Sector View, showing the content of that address
- From-To dialog (If set via Options) when doing a surface scan
- From-To dialog (If set via Options) when doing a scan for missing files and folders [Professional license]
- From-To dialog (If set via Options) when creating a list of erroneous sectors
- /eto: command line parameter that takes a value in milliseconds as time out during extraction
Improvements: - Improved sector view and edit window's functionality to stay on top
- On a Sparse object, SectorView shows all zeroes and the text 'Sparse' but when the edit box or scroll buttons are used, the address changes and that content should be shown (which now happens)
- Show End-address when a surface scan was interrupted (if From-To dialog was used)
- Display the MFT LBA rather than the timezone, in properties, because there is no timezone field in NTFS anyway
- Display the FAT address in FAT file system Properties
- Improved the default settings wrt auto-scanning and exploring a file system completely
- Improved the dialog after an interrupted file-system expansion, to take in account folder-per-folder browsing
- Extended /ei: command line parameter to also make a (managed) clone
- Extended /t: command line parameter to support /t:audio and /t:data to extract all audio or all data tracks
- Extended /range: command line parameter to also work during extraction of image files, scan for missing files and folders, ...
- Extended /fromto: command line parameter to also work during extraction of image files, scan for missing files and folders, ...
- Improved command line parameter /d:: to also fully support Physical Drive ID's higher than 9
- Make sure certain @... commands via the GUI command line can still be executed when no drives are found
- Added PIONEER as DVD Video recorder application - to automatically look for DVD Video
- Small cosmetic change (not perfect) to avoid previous small file's name to be displayed during huge file extraction
- 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 other, not listed, GUI improvements
Fixes: - If the IBP/IBQ Complete OnDemand Mode was turned on and next turned off again before closing the file (Via the IBP/IBQ Manager), changes would be lost
- Fixed command line parameter /p: to always work on the correctly selected Partition
- Turned off overlay icons display by default, because it can cause weird visual effects on some Windows 10 systems
- ISO9660 with more folders in the pathtable than than the root folder (illegal situation), could be expanded two ways, depending on what path was followed. This has been fixed and everything is now shown always
- Aborting creation of an IBP/IBQ file could cause IsoBuster to think all sectors above that point in the source were unreadable. Cosmetic only, extraction would still simply work
Version 3.8
- Release Date: Jun 25, 2016
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Changes / New: - Overhaul of all visual aspects of the software to improve things for the visually impaired, for instance high contrast mode works optimally now
- Overhaul of all visual aspects of the software to improve scaling (larger than default fonts - still with limits)
- Overhaul of all visual aspects of the software to improve and fix Right-to-Left reading where appropriate
- The use of 32 bit + Alpha channel icons throughout the software (Sorry Win2K users)
- Load and use system icons when appropriate (e.g. Help, Information, Exclamation etc.)
- Support for *.vhd Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing Virtual Disk Images
- Support for *.vhdx Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing Virtual Disk Images
- Support for *.vdi Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing Virtual Disk Images
- Full support for 4Kn drives (drives with 4096 bytes per logical sector)
- Browse back and forth between earlier made selections
- Complete IBP/IBQ managed image files 'on demand' as sectors are required and read. Requires a [Professional] license
- Show streams, attached to files or folders, via right mouse click selection
- Show extents of folders, very much the same like on fragmented files
Improvements: - Show Hint text when hovering over Details, List and Small Icons buttons on the main form
- Improved ancient annoyance where the StatusBar text/hint when hovering over a TreeNode or selecting a ListNode would disappear again immediately
- IsoBuster gets focus again when selected via the task bar and when the properties window is showing
- Improved the location of the right mouse click popup, so that it now appears more inline with what Windows does
- Improved things so that both percent labels on the progress dialog get updated when 2 progress bars are showing
- Ability to resize the device-selection combo-box in the top left corner and option to keep the combo-box and tree-view under it at the same width
- Search dialog and Options/Settings dialog resizing by the user
- Show Video icon next to "Extract but filter MPEG frames" where it is almost certainly appropriate and make the entry default (bold) to hopefully steer the user in the right direction
- Improved the right mouse click popup on a properties window
- Show red error icon next to building lists of erroneous sectors (single objects only, not folders)
- Default saving disk fragments (From-To) and partitions etc. to file extension *.dsk instead of *.img for better loading support (*.img can also be optical)
- Do not show the File/Folder Search option in case the folder has been expanded already and proves to be empty
- Add Application and Version information in CUE file
- When closing the tray, do not show an error message anymore when the error is illegal field in CDB (05/24/00) or related, because laptops etc. don't support closing and report this with an illegal field in CDB.
- Don't even suggest to complete an IBP/IBQ file if there are no other devices other than the IBP/IBQ itself (e.g. no devices found or finding devices disabled and no other image files loaded)
- Fomat large numbers with dots or commas (depending on Windows settings) on more locations
- Dialogs that take addresses and sizes as input, now allow the input to be formatted with commas and dots
- The breadcrumbs control uses the same icons as shown in the treeview control, based on settings
- Seriously improved the look and feel of the breadcrumbs control for Windows XP and High Contrast mode
- The about box has a fresh new look and hopefully helps with the confusion between PRO - [Personal] and [professional] licenses
- "@open:" opens the Open Image file dialog, "@open:\c:\y\z\w.xyz" opens file: "c:\y\z\w.xyz"
- Command: @show:\extents or @show:\streams or @show:\resourcefork
- Added Ctrl+BackSpace shortcut to trigger the Breadcrumbs Edit function
- Added Ctrl+Shift+Q shortcut to start the IBP/IBQ Manager -or- EWF Properties (depending on the image file that is loaded)
- Added Ctrl+Shift+R shortcut to 'run' a file
- Added F8 shortcut to bring up the Options/Settings dialog
- Improve the workings of Ctrl+Shift+M to either create or complete an image file, making sure they don't conflict
- Esc closes the From-To Dialog, the IBP/IBQ Manager, the About window, Properties and the file edit dialog
- Improved building the previously opened image file's list and make sure a separator is not drawn as a thick line
- Make sure there are tab characters between text and shortcut, in popup menus, to keep it all readable
- Also support reverse reading when filling gaps
- Also support reverse reading of tracks in their session (last track first)
- Improved Buttons' height in Toolbar (Up, Details, List, Icons, ...)
- Improvements in the navigation bar, support for '..', '\' etc.
- Show "Extracting Name-of-?" instead of "Extracting CD" when extracting a non-optical disk to a folder containing its partitions
- Auto-Save managed IBP/IBQ image file making every 5 / 10 minutes, depending
- 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 other, not listed, GUI improvements
Fixes: - Fixed improper updating of the *.IBP, Managed Image File, after the reverse reading feature had been used
- Showing the previous search results, initiated via the search dialog did not work properly
- Ctrl+C would not always work in other windows than the main window (e.g. Sector View), because the main window would 'steal' the input
- Made changes to the breadcrumbs control, so that IsoBuster now runs on Windows 2000 (Win2K) again
- Several improvements parsing NTFS to deal with illegal values, especially during a scan for missing or deleted files/folders, to avoid exception errors
- Fixed an exception error when opening a CUE that points to multiple files but more than one of those files are not available
- Fixed a serious and possible data corruption issue with NTFS for large + fragmented files, on extraction to HD or elsewhere, because the offset in the first block would be wrong
- Fixed a data corruption issue with NTFS for files that fit in the $MFT records, but only on 4Kn drives, so drives that have 4096 bytes per block native and expose those blocks as such (so not 512e drives)
Version 3.7
- Release Date: Dec 18, 2015
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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 (e.g. 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 (*)
- Fixed it so that the Save Dialog, Print Dialog and Font Dialog won't be displayed behind the SectorView window
(*) Bug introduced in IsoBuster 3.6 - "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"
Version 3.7 Beta
- Release Date: Dec 9, 2015
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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 (e.g. 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 (*)
- Fixed it so that the Save Dialog, Print Dialog and Font Dialog won't be displayed behind the SectorView window
(*) Bug introduced in IsoBuster 3.6 - "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"
Version 3.6
- Release Date: Jun 20, 2015
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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 (*)
- Detect if the Linux BeFS (BFS) file system is present and show an icon for it (*)
- 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 present
Improvements: - 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 [Professional]
- Allow to complete a managed image file from another non-managed image file [Professional]
- Improved speed when updating the IBP managed image file
- Added various extraction type switches via the 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 [ADS] 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 (e.g. 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 error dialog (instead of RETRY OMMIT ABORT) on file extraction
- Various 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: - Fixed GUI issue that caused incorrect values to be displayed in certain error messages
- Fixed possible hang when EWF image files are loaded
- Fixed that sometimes the sanitizing part after finding missing files and folders on a FAT volume could take 'forever', due to bad FAT records
- Fixed data-corruption issue, introduced in 3.5, while extracting files with more than 10 extents (fragments would be extracted in the wrong order)
- Fixed it so that when an IBP/IBQ is made twice in a row from the same media (without a refresh) the bitmap is still fully written out to the IBP
- Avoid exception error on bad IBP without (enough) bitmap data (rare test case)
- Fixed extraction of named streams of an NTFS folder (not file)
Version 3.5
- Release Date: Dec 12, 2014
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Changes / New: - 64-bit sector addressing so that we can properly show, extract and support any partition, file, folder or file system above the 2TB boundary
- Most objects (files, folders etc), despite the 64-bit address instead of the 32-bit address, now use less memory because of intense work and serious optimizations
- Saving and updating of managed image files, especially for huge drives, is considerably made faster, and yet kept backwards compatible
- Ability to load a generic image file (*.iso, *.dks, *.flp) with specified properties on the command line: /IPROP:header|blocksize (e.g. /IPROP:100|2048)
- Ability to extract CD segments as *.WAV file (Gives you the power to wrap any raw CD data in WAVE RIFF headers)
Improvements: - A plethora of improvements to properly 'guess' the size of an El Torito boot image on CD or DVD, in case that information is not present in the data structures
- Show how the size was determined in the Boot Image file Properties window
- Improvements to try an find FAT file systems inside Boot Images on CD and DVD
- Implemented ability to (via right mouse click) find a matching file for a Boot Image and use that file's size properties
- Changed 'Last LBA' display to take the last block of the last extent that actually has a size (in case the last one(s) ha(s)(ve) no size)
- A great number of improvements and workarounds to deal with CD-i discs that have audio and data combined in one track. Because it is an illegal state many drives return unexpected data for such discs
- Save the status more often while making or completing managed image files. More saves as more problems are encountered
- Display the address where the process 'Completing IBP/IBQ Image' was aborted in the 'test and completemanaged image files' dialog.
- Ability to create one big IBQ file instead of ~1GB (or otherwise defined) sized IBQ files (will only work on NTFS volumes)
- The From-To dialog can now also extract *.WAV (via checkbox) from CD
- Extracting an audio track to WAV or BIN/ISO will now happen including the pre-gap of the next audio track, default set in options
- Work around Windows issue with downloaded CHM files by removing the "Zone Identifier" stream from the CHM file that was added by Windows after download.
- Memory and speed improvements in the management of the erroneous-sectors-bitmap
- Various other smaller GUI improvements
Fixes: - Show the correct Last LBA for an Audio track
- GUI fix that properly shows what track is being completed during the completion of a managed IBP/IBQ image file
- Not all orphaned UDF folders would be found during a "find missing files and folders" in certain situations (bug introduced in IsoBuster 3.2)
Version 3.5 Beta
- Release Date: Nov 26, 2014
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Changes / New: - 64-bit sector addressing so that we can properly show, extract and support any partition, file, folder or file system above the 2TB boundary
- Most objects (files, folders etc), despite the 64-bit address instead of the 32-bit address, now use less memory because of intense work and serious optimizations
- Saving and updating of managed image files, especially for huge drives, is considerably made faster, and yet kept backwards compatible
- Ability to load a generic image file (*.iso, *.dks, *.flp) with specified properties on the command line: /IPROP:header|blocksize (e.g. /IPROP:100|2048)
- Ability to extract CD segments as *.WAV file (Gives you the power to wrap any raw CD data in WAVE RIFF headers)
Improvements: - A plethora of improvements to properly 'guess' the size of an El Torito boot image on CD or DVD, in case that information is not present in the data structures
- Show how the size was determined in the Boot Image file Properties window
- Improvements to try an find FAT file systems inside Boot Images on CD and DVD
- Implemented ability to (via right mouse click) find a matching file for a Boot Image and use that file's size properties
- Changed 'Last LBA' display to take the last block of the last extent that actually has a size (in case the last one(s) ha(s)(ve) no size)
- A great number of improvements and workarounds to deal with CD-i discs that have audio and data combined in one track. Because it is an illegal state many drives return unexpected data for such discs
- Save the status more often while making or completing managed image files. More saves as more problems are encountered
- Display the address where the process 'Completing IBP/IBQ Image' was aborted in the 'test and completemanaged image files' dialog.
- Ability to create one big IBQ file instead of ~1GB (or otherwise defined) sized IBQ files (will only work on NTFS volumes)
- The From-To dialog can now also extract *.WAV (via checkbox) from CD
- Extracting an audio track to WAV or BIN/ISO will now happen including the pre-gap of the next audio track, default set in options
- Work around Windows issue with downloaded CHM files by removing the "Zone Identifier" stream from the CHM file that was added by Windows after download.
- Memory and speed improvements in the management of the erroneous-sectors-bitmap
- Various other smaller GUI improvements
Fixes: - Show the correct Last LBA for an Audio track
- GUI fix that properly shows what track is being completed during the completion of a managed IBP/IBQ image file
Version 3.4
- Release Date: Aug 23, 2014
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Changes: - IsoBuster now also provides access to logical drives (C: D: etc.) instead of only Physical drives (see options). This gives access to Windows volumes. So on a higher level, which means that drivers can translate the data first before IsoBuster gets it. This is particularly useful in case of encrypted volumes, for instance TrueCrypt mounted volumes
- Dialog for experts with a [Professional] license to work with, test and complete managed image files
- Once an IBP file is loaded, right mouse click the drive-selection control in the left corner and choose "Change or Test managed Image File Properties (Expert)"
- Count the amount of errors inside a specified range
- Change the status of an area
- Complete the image file inside a range
- Command line parameters /CI: /RANGE: /FROMTO: and /EP:NPC to complete a managed image file, inside a range or not
- Ability to create an empty IBP/IBQ file set (no actual reads executed) via /ET:E to allow investigators to complete regions via /CI: and /RANGE: or /FROMTO:
- Allow managed image files to be completed at the end with dummy data if the input drive is "*" (/D:*)
- Implemented ability to reverse read (during extraction), using a given range
- Ability to reverse read via command line parameter: /RR:[Interval]
- Detect if the Linux EXT(2-4) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of EXT itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it's present)
- Detect if the Unix UFS(1-2) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of UFS itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it's present)
- Detect if the Linux Reiser(1-4) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of Reiser itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it's present)
- Detect if the Unix XFS(1-4) file system is present and show an icon for it (exploration of XFS itself is not implemented but now an investigator knows it's present)
- Ability to load an additional LibEWF.dll next to the already present, embedded, libewf-20130416 version. A libewf.dll and its dependables need to be put in the /plugins/ folder
- IsoBuster will now always first try to load the dynamic version (assumed to be more recent) before falling back on the embedded libewf-20130416 version. The embedded version may be removed over time to reduce the size again, we'll see
- New option that defines how strict surface scanning is and whether there should be an abort after an error
Improvements: - Improved device naming if Inquiry fails
- Improved determination of HD vs USB stick/Flash etc.
- Improved user feedback while cleaning up (sanitising) NTFS so that the user has an idea about where the process is
- Create sparse files when extracting sparse files and no filters are in use for that file
- Ability to drag files to IsoBuster's TreeView, to open as image file, when IsoBuster is running in an elevated state
- Popup warning when extracting from the ISO9660 file system, when other better file systems are present
- Support for the *.image disk file format
- Show attributes for Tracks, Sessions and Partitions in ListView (instead of N/A)
- Fixed it so that HDs larger than 2 TB are seen as 2 TB instead of less, so that at least that space can be fully adressed and explored
- Rewrote the automatic skipping and retry-count reducing mechanism, during extraction of a managed image file, to perform much better
- Allow <%FN> in the filename, in case an image is extracted via the command line
- Dependency on cc3250.dll for old Win2K OS in combination with multi-language support has been removed
- You can now always choose the installation folder. Before this was dependant on previous installations
- Show the object Type, cfr. Windows, in the ListView (for instance "JPG file") and allow to sort this new column (column may be hidden by default, right mouse click the ListView columns to enable)
- Added more sort options that will be performed right after the low level file system / folder exploring is done
- Various other smaller GUI improvements
Fixes: - Fixed an exception error that happened if auto-folder-scanning was interrupted by closing the application
- Fixed an issue that could cause the last part of Video not to be saved to a file, when this video was being filtered via: "Extract but filter only MPG frames"
Version 3.3
- Release Date: Dec 13, 2013
- Please refer to this page http://www.isobuster.com/news/isobuster_3.3_release_notes for a full list of changes
Version 3.3 Beta
- Release Date: Nov 28, 2013
- Changes:
- Added "Extract but filter Mpg" for all files, not just mpeg1 filtering of *.dat files on VCD. If you extract a *.VOB file from a DVD this way you end up with a perfect mpeg2 *.mpg file. See DVDVob2Mpg for more information
- Detect Encrypted partitions on which no file-systems can be found (for instance encrypted with TrueCrypt)
- Implemented certain shell commands. Right mouse click on an optical drive will show "investigate with IsoBuster". IsoBuster is added to the list of programs that is available via "Open with"
- Improvements:
- The toolbar installation is unchecked by default, so that people who don't read and just install, don't get the toolbar. Seems like a good compromise.
- FAT Improvement. Test the backup BPB as well, even if the primary BPB is readable and seems ok, and next decide on the best one to use.
- FAT Improvement. No read-ahead anymore of the FAT. On large volumes this can be time consuming and the FAT records may even not be in use
- Deal smarter with huge FATs, suppress warning message and don't load in memory all at once
- Better error display instead of the horrific and way too generic Borland C++ Builder 'EEFFACE' message for C++ exceptions
- Avoid Nikon *.nef files being found as Kodak *.kdc files
- Suppress Windows 2000 dialog when there is no floppy in the drive and the drive is being scanned
- Implemented the ability to detect a floppy drive for what it really is even if there is no floppy in the drive. Before it was not possible to detect a floppy drive properly if it had no disk inside.
- Scan the full drive letter range A - Z in search of floppy drives, instead of just A and B, now that they can be detected more reliable
- Small speed improvements here and there, trying to serve results faster when and where possible.
- Improvements in finding the proper recordings' names on edited DVD-VR discs
- Improvements to deal with bad (non-windows compatible) file names
- Improvement in building FAT long file names from corrupted directory tables with wrong checksums
- Improvement to detect UDF on a CD-R with incorrect track layout
- Remove certain dialogs with questions during startup for very new users (no prior install), to not confuse them. Use the best Exploration settings instead
- Updated LibEWF support to libewf-20130416
- Show compressed folders blue in the Treeview (left pane), not just the ListView (right pane)
- Show encrypted files and folders green in both left and right pane
- Show encrypted partitions green in both left and right pane
- Show "Sparse" for LastLBA in case the object (or last extent) is Sparse
- Show an empty block and do not read block 0 in case the object is sparse during a SectorView
- When an NTFS extent is extracted on its own ([Professional] license) and when that extent is a compressed part of a compressed file, then it's decompressed on the fly as well
- Various other smaller GUI improvements
- Fixes:
- On Windows 2000 an error dialog was shown (sometimes) when another language was selected because of a change in the language resource dlls in previous version. All fixed now.
- Fixed NTFS issue, probably only seen on large volumes (Terabytes). Fragmented MFT files were not always properly seen as such, so that parts or even the root of the file system could not be found.
- Fixed FAT issue on large FAT volumes that are formatted by other software than Windows itself. In other words an improvement to deal with unexpectedly huge FATs
- Fixed Uninstallation error "Runtime Error (...): Could not call proc."
Version 3.2
- Release Date: May 14, 2013
- Please refer to this page http://www.isobuster.com/news/isobuster_3.2_release_notes for a full list of changes
Version 3.2 Beta
- Release Date: Apr 6, 2013
- Changes:
- Support for ExFAT.
- Find deleted NTFS files and folders during a scan for missing files and folders.
- Implemented a "Find deleted files and folders" option, when an NTFS file-system is selected. This is a much faster scan if you're only interested in finding deleted files and folders in an NTFS file-system.
- Support for FATX
- Support for XISO / XDVDFS
- Extended Master Boot Record (EMBR) support.
- BSD partitions support.
- Improvements:
- Further improved the UAC experience by tweaking and fixing issues. The experience is still the same as described in previous release.
- Remove duplicate partitions (for instance when there's a GPT but the MBR fields still point to valid partitions as well).
- Ways to dump all sectors that are being read to log files (for debug purposes) (support for *.ibdat and *.ibadr).
- Added .bkf file type recognition to the file-signature scan.
- Further improved the ListView Columns' drag behaviour by working around (Builder) VCL limits/bugs.
- An NTFS file also gets the Sparse property now when it's not fragmented (and not only when its extents are sparse)
- Display the File's start LBA for a sparse file, except when the first extent is sparse, then "Sparse" is displayed
- Added Full Path(s) and Start and Finish processing time to the MD5 file (as comments).
- Ability (set via options) to store and restore the position of the main form (instead of always centered).
- Added *.dd to the supported image files.
- Recognize EXT SuperBlock when trying to determine the blocksize of an image (for instance a Linux made .dd file with an EXT1,2,3 or 4 file-system).
- Improved handling of NTFS MFT embedded files during the scan for missing files based on their signature
- Various other smaller GUI improvements
- Fixes:
- Not all *.png files were found during a scan for missing files and folders (bug introduced in version 3.1).
- Mac HFS file systems with large fragmented files (more than 8 extents) could trigger a program crash.
- In rare cases not all files and/or folders of an NTFS folder were found, if that folder was described in both the MFT record and via INDX records.
- Sometimes too small files were created, when they were fully sparse (one extent, sparse (= all zeroes) (NTFS).
- Fixed it so that the progress bar also changes color (red) in case of errors, during a scan for missing files and folders
Version 3.1
- Release Date: Dec 15, 2012
- Please refer to this page http://www.isobuster.com/news/isobuster_3.1_release_notes for a full list of changes
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