IsoBuster versions

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.

v4.9 [Dec 20, 2021]
Changes / New:
- Windows 11 tested, improved, ready.
- Support for ReplayTV 1000, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 3000, 3020, 3030, 3060, 4000, 4040, 4080, 4160, 4320, 4500, 4504, 4508, 4516, 4532, 5000, 5040, 5060, 5080, 5160, 5320, 5500, 5504, 5508, 5516 and 5532 DVR/PVR standalone Video Recorders.
- Support for ShowStopper PV-HS1000, ShowStopper PV-HS2000 and ShowStopper PV-HS3000 DVR/PVR standalone Video Recorders.
- Support for Thomson DTH7000 / RCA DRS7000 "Scenium" and Thomson DTH7500 / RCA DRC7005 DVR/PVR standalone Video Recorders.
- Roxio, Prassi, Sonic *.gi image file CD-Text support.
- Ability to keep certain attributes ('Read Only', 'System', 'Hidden' and/or 'Archive') when extracting files.
- Ability to auto-complete a managed IBP/IBQ image file in a loop, until stopped or completed. Look for a checkbox on the various dialogs, before creating, when opening an incomplete image, after first creation or completion etc. The check box is pre-checked if this has been set in Options.
- Read Error dialog's [Retry] button will now automatically be clicked, again and again, with a 10 second interval, so that after an error the process can continue automatically if the sector could be read afterall.
- The [Retry] button (and hence automatic execution) is not the default button on the RETRY-SELECT-ABORT error dialog, but it can be via a setting in Options
Improvements:
- Find orphaned/deleted PS2 MC card folders (if the PS2-MC-FAT is still OK).
- Also scan for PS2 APA partitions when a GPT partition scheme has already been found.
- Append "[Deleted]" to the filename of deleted files and folders in the PS2 MC file system (if the deleted files/folders are located in a not-deleted folder).
- Detect PS2 APA boot.kelf files even if they're not referenced from the header.
- Show what is selected in the Options (left pane) TreeView, even when the control is not in focus.
- Updated a number of icons.
- Improved algorithm to Extract while filtering only mpeg frames on DVD.
- Improved finding all VOB files via the DVD-VFR IFO files.
- Improved the /ef: command to incorporate wildcard search functionality to find a particular file before extracting it.
- Improvement to make sure CUE files of CD-i discs, as created with IsoBuster, are still recognized as CD-i discs.
- Always write out CD-Text data to the *.CUE, even if a *.CDT could be created. This way the CD-Text data is also easily readable via a text file (the *.cue).
- Improved detecting generic split image files based on their extension (Added *.00 and *_00.pdi variants).
- Added *.00 to Open Image file filter.
- Improved *.gi parsing to deal with certain variants.
- Improved showing file icons in the (right pane) ListView when the OS is super slow to respond.
- Sector View now also 'understands' "start", "end", "first", "last" and "mid" to read the first, last or middle sector of the selected object.
- Sector View "start", "end", "first", "last" and "mid" can be followed by a or - value, which is then taken in account (e.g. "last-32" will show the 32nd sector before the Last LBA of the selected object).
- Improved GPT partition table parsing, making use of its backup, to still find partitions on a HDD/SSD or USB stick.
- Use the GPT Partition Entry name/label to name partitions found via the GPT.
- Improved ability to interrupt building a report.
- Do not display edit window if building a report was cancelled.
- The Pause dialog that can be called on several functions now has a checkbox to auto-resume the process again in 60 seconds.
- Improved Progress bar behaviour.
- Various GUI tweaks were made for best compatibility with Windows 11.
- Checking for errors (Surface Scan, Check if all files are physically readable) defaults to normal generic reading again instead of mostly raw reading. This makes for a more accurate real life test.
- Improved detecting exceptional CD media (CD-i, VCD) that needs to be read and verified raw.
- Improved High Contrast mode (for the visually impaired), especially on Window 10 and higher.
- Plenty of other improvements, a few 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:
- Fix when extracting Raw2User. In certain rare occassions there could be slightly more data in the file.
- Fixed GUI issue when doing a manual retry while reading from a managed (*.ibp/ibq) image file. A new dialog would be created on every manual retry.
- Fixed issues that, under certain conditions, prevented a DVD IFO -VFR folder to be expanded.
Fixes: [IsoBuster 4.9.1]
- 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.

v4.8 [Jun 23, 2021]
Changes / New:
- Support for Microsoft's newest file system, ReFS. Versions 1.x, 2.x and 3.x with 16 KiB and 64 KiB clusters on 512 and 4Kn drives are fully supported. (tested with ReFS 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 3.1, 3.4 and 3.7).
- Full, random access, compressed *.dmg image file support.
- Ability to show file system meta data, via right mouse click on a file system icon (Implemented for NTFS, FAT and ReFS).
- Support for Amiga partitions.
- Support for AmigaDOS.
- Support for *.adf and *.hdf image files.
- Option to Clone [From-To] - via Shift right-mouse-click.
- Search command "range:x:y" to search for all objects that fall in the range starting at address x over a range of y blocks.
- Search command "fromto:x:y" to search for all objects that fall in the range starting at address x and ending at address y.
Improvements:
- Compensate for illegal CD/DVD TOCs, especially on multi-session discs where a higher session seems to start at a lower than possible address.
- Display an appropriate text when scanning for partitions hasn't been done yet.
- Show text making it clear that when a partition is encrypted, scanning for missing files and folders is unlikely to yield recoverable data.
- Do not automatically show the EWF (*.E01) properties anymore in the edit dialog when a *.E01 file is loaded, use the image properties instead.
- Avoid finding UDF VAT and SAT structures on other than 2K media because it's only used on 2K (Optical) media.
- Renamed "Unassigned Partition" to "Unallocated space".
- Improved detection and support for XFS v5.x.
- Detect Amiga SFS (Smart File System) and Amiga PFS (Professional File System).
- Keep (left pane) TreeView selection visible, even when the TreeView has no focus.
- Important improvements, yielding more accurate video files, for the Panasonic 750/780 series Video Recorders (DVR).
- Recognize a Sony RDR-HX730 DVR image file as a HDD image file (not as an optical disc image file).
- Recognize a Roland 256 byte/block image file.
- Improved support for *.xgd image files.
- Improved support for XISO image files.
- Improved finding embedded NTFS files based on their signature via a scan for missing files and folders.
- Added *.wim file signature detection via a scan for missing files and folders.
- Get a better FAT volume name, time stamp and various extra meta files immediately by parsing a (small) part of the root already.
- Do not convert FAT short names to lower case (anymore).
- Important improvements to find a missing NTFS volume on the fly (e.g. with a corrupt $VBR) and during a scan for missing files and folders.
- Show [filename.rules] in label and/or [*.rules] in caption of the 'Find missing files and folders' dialog when a rules file is being used.
- Added more predefined search terms (via the arrow pointing to the right, on the right side of the search box).
- Plenty of other improvements, a few 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 an issue that could cause bad sectors to show as good sectors in a freshly made (ibp/ibq) managed image file, under certain conditions.
- NTFS volumes with 64 KB clusters didn't work properly all the time (introduced in IB 4.6 when 2 MB clusters were implemented).
- Fixed it so that when Extracting a folder is cancelled, fully expanding (going deep) of the folder is also properly cancelled.
- Fixed HFS file extraction (issue introduced in IB 4.7).
- Fixed an exception error that could occur when a combination of certain UDF structures were found during a scan for missing files and folders.
- Fixed an exception error that could occur when IsoBuster went looking for the Nero (*.nri) project file (set via Options).
- Fixed a Popup Menu text vs functionality mismatch "Extract & Run" vs "Extract Raw but convert to User Data".
- Fixed an Options text vs functionality mismatch (wrong text next to 'embedded' icon and 'ISO9660 extended attributes' icon).

v4.7 [Dec 17, 2020]
Changes / New:
- Implemented an option to not automatically explore a drive for partitions and file systems, to avoid reading until the operator choses so (Ignored on image files and needs a Professional license).
- Retries can be reduced to 0 retries (including the block per block retries).
- Added detection of encrypted partitions and tracks based on the encryption signatures for: WinMagic SecureDoc Full Disk Encryption, BitLocker, Apple File Vault, Check Point Full Disk Encryption, GuardianEdge Encryption Plus/Anywhere/Hard Disk Encryption and Symantec Endpoint Encryption, McAfee Safeboot/Endpoint Encryption, Sophos Safeguard Enterprise and Safeguard Easy, Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption (an encrypted partition or session/track is shown with a green color - it is also indicative for why no files and folders were found for such a partition or session/track).
- Ability to Export and Import report templates (*.ibtmpl) (via right mouse click, see under the actual reporting).
- Full Padus DiscJuggler *.cdi image file support, including CD-Text, via the Padus pfctoc.dll that is installed together with this version of IsoBuster.
- Options / GUI / Shell option to choose your own 'Investigate with IsoBuster' text on right mouse clicking a CD/DVD drive in Windows Explorer.
- Ability to Scan for missing files and folders but look for *.VOB Video only, via right mouse click Shift Ctrl.
- Support for the PS2 Memory Card file system.
- Support for the PSX Memory Card file system.
- Support for the Dreamcast Memory Card file system.
- Detect Xbox formatted Hard Disks and support Xbox native partitioning schemes to reach its file systems and stored data.
- Detect PS2 formatted Hard Disks and support its native APA partitioning scheme to reach its file systems and stored data.
- Detect the PS2 PFS file system.
- Support for CD *.vcd image files.
- Support for raw CD *.2056, *.2324, *.2332, *.2336, *.2352, *.2368, *.2448 image files.
- Support for GD-ROM *.gdi image files.
- Support for various other block device image files: *.xgd, *.apa, *.ps2, *.vm2; *.vmc, *.saveram, *.ddf, *.gme, *.mcd, *.mci, *.ps, *.psm, *.srm, *.vgs, *.vmp, *.vm1, *.mcr, *.dcm, *.vmu, *.hfv, *.528.
Improvements:
- Greatly improved Prassi PrimoDVD / Sonic / Roxio *.gi image file support by finding internal sections and tracks.
- Default RAW extracted CD Images now always get extension *.bin (instead of *.iso).
- Improved support for 512 16 ECC bytes per block Image files.
- Changed the default optical disc retry counts from Per-Range: 2 and Per-Block: 3 to Per-Range: 1 and Per-Block: 2.
- Improved the ability to clone an image with different internal blocksize than the device's blocksize.
- Small improvement in Reiser file system detection.
- Improvements detecting Xbox' FATX.
- Show PS2 APA Attributes/Resources.
- Ability to recognize and list ISO images in the application area of a PS2/APA partition.
- Check the third track of a GD-ROM for the ISO9660 file system.
- Improvement to search functionality and particularly searching inside (what I call) Embedded objects (for instance sub-partitions in partitions).
- Show files in the breadcrumb control when their content is shown (streams, extents etc).
- Show 'state icons' in the breadcrumb control when 'special' object members are shown, for instance streams, extents etc.
- Show wait cursor while loading (large) files into the EditWindow.
- Show Search results breadcrumb with the full system name where the search originated.
- Improved looking for a UDF 'VAT' in image files.
- Default, VOB files are not cut into smaller 1GB pieces anymore (everybody runs NTFS now that can deal with larger files).
- If all tracks of a session are detected as encrypted, the session is regarded encrypted as well.
- If all sessions of a CD/DVD are detected as encrypted, the disc is regarded encrypted as well.
- Work around a W10 issue (via the installation) that seems to elevate 'Investigate with IsoBuster' to the default setting sometimes.
- Before a device is automatically removed (e.g. disconnected or device electronics failure) IsoBuster asks to save the scan results.
- Custom file signature scanning now pre-processes the lines for much faster searching.
- A few demo Custom file signature scanning *.rules are now installed in the /Plugins/ folder, so that it's easier to understand, edit, test and use.
- Custom file signature scanning now also supports commands: \%, \i(), \e() and \c().
- Plenty of other improvements, quite a few 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 it so that command line parameter /ef:sig works again (It looks like this was broken since v 3.6).
- Fixed exception error that could occur when one clicks the forward history button when there is nothing to show.

v4.6 [Jun 23, 2020]
Changes / New:
- Support for NTFS cluster sizes of 128 KB and higher. Since Windows 10 v1709 and Windows Server 2019 the older maximum 64 KB boundary has been increased to 2 MB, so changes needed to be made.
- Support for multiple NTFS MFT records in a single sector.
- Faster extraction and cloning, depending on write and read speeds but obviously still limited by the read speed on failing media or devices.
- Work-around for a certain type of data corruption that appears to happen frequently using certain USB card readers (internal and external). Symptoms are the sudden loss of files and or partitions etc. Usually in combination with FAT. Remaining files and/or folders may get names such as "USBC◘╧è◘" or "USBC.". Possibly related to ADATA NH92 adaptors though that is not certain! After researching the issue online it seems a lot of people think this is a virus. I see mention of the "USBC virus" and "USBC malware", yet it's not. It's a hardware / firmware failure that happened while data was being written to the SD card. IsoBuster is now able to detect and compensate for such issues on the fly so that files and folders can still be found and extracted.
- IsoBuster now displays the average speed when extracting.
- Support for ISO9660 and its derivatives, Joliet, Rock Ridge etc. mistakenly copied/cloned to a USB stick with 512 bytes per block.
- Right-Mouse-Click when holding SHIFT adds the option to work on a range (From-To) when doing a -Surface Scan- or -Scan for missing files and folders [Professional license]- or -List erroneous sectors-.
- Right-Mouse-Click when holding SHIFT adds the option to create a managed image file or clone that is [Empty]. No actual reading is done yet and the user has full control over which type completion is to be performed or what type of engineering is to be done [Professional license].
- Right-Mouse-Click when holding SHIFT adds the option to show the Sector View dialog with the object's last LBA instead of its first LBA.
Improvements:
- Various speed and memory improvements when parsing NTFS.
- Various speed and memory improvements when parsing Brother-FAT and FAT.
- Various speed and memory improvements when parsing ISO9660 and its derivatives, Joliet, Rock Ridge etc.
- Various speed and memory improvements when parsing the Pioneer DVR file system.
- Improved FAT parsing when only the backup boot sector is available.
- Both FAT addresses are shown in the FAT File system properties dialog (if there are two FATs).
- Improvements in the 'debug dump' image file functionality. Activated when contacted to try and debug an issue.
- The search-suggestions-drop-down now displays under the search control instead of to the right of it, very much like previous-search-commands.
- An object (for instance file) with no size (0 bytes) cannot have unreadable sectors (so it should not be listed as such, even if its address is in unreadable space).
- Improved support for old style Macintosh Partition maps.
- Better file signature detection of quick time formats: mp4, mov, 3gp, 3g2, m4a, m4b, m4p, m4v during a scan for missing files and folders.
- Improved file signature detection and assembly of fragmented *.avi files.
- Improved *.swf, *.wmf, *.pxc, *.exe, *.dwg and *.ico file signature detection (less chance of false positives).
- Added file signature detection for: *.alb, *.pwm, *.pwp, *.amr.
- Added more shortcuts, Ctrl and Crtl-, to read and show sectors in Sector View.
- Also allow the creation of a customizable file system from a single track session or a single partition USB/HDD/SSD.
- TreeView now does 'hot tracking' when hovering over objects.
- Better internal click and right click management when making further selections afterwards, e.g. search.
- Changed the layout of the right-mouse-click popups to hopefully make more sense (may need a small adjustment when you're used to the old layout).
- Dynamically create right-mouse-click popups to allow much more flexibility in the future.
- Plenty of other improvements, quite a few 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:
- No known, reported or encountered bugs . so nothing needed to be fixed.

v4.5 [Dec 17, 2019]
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).

v4.4 [Jun 20, 2019]
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, RDR-HXD1090).
- Support for Panasonic HDD recorders (DMR-E80H, DMR-E100H, DMR-E85H, DMR-E95H, DMR-E96H, DMR-E500H, DMR-EH50, DMR-EH60, DMR-EH55, DMR-EH56, DMR-EH57, DMR-EH75V, 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 (H2080MW8, 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.

v4.3 [Dec 19, 2018]
- All up to date language plug-ins.
- A multi-language installation wizard.
- An English Help file.

v4.2 [Jun 23, 2018]
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.
- Support reading in the first pregap on a CD (addresses -150 to -1), for instance with Sector View.
- The Edit window / Sector Viewer can be set (and will remember) its own font for both normal text and text that requires a fixed width font.
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.
- 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 {

v4.1 [Dec 15, 2017]
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 browser. 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)

v4.0 [Jun 29, 2017]
- 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 represenation 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.

v3.9 [Dec 19, 2016]
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
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 OMIT 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
Fixed GUI issue that caused incorrect values to be displayed in certain error messages
Fixed possible hang when EWF image files are loaded
Others

v3.8 [Jun 25, 2016]
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

v3.7 [Dec 18, 2015]
All up to date language plug-ins (See here!)
A multi-language installation wizard
An English Help file.

v3.7 [Nov 13, 2015]
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

v3.6 [Jun 19, 2015]
Aside from a few critical bug fixes and a ton of improvements there is also a lot of new functionality again. Such as support for the Linux EXT file system, which is a very popular file system that is also used a lot in embedded systems, NAS drives, TVs, Setup boxes, Recorders etc. However, there is also support for High Sierra, GameCube, Rimage and so on. On top of this IsoBuster detects a wide range of new file systems for their presence (JFS, ZFS, BFS, RomFS, SquashFS, BtrFS, CramFS, ReFS, ...). This way investigators can immediately see if a partition or volume hides another file system. I hope you enjoy this new version and you should definitely upgrade if you have an older version, to benefit from the bug fixes etc.
Combine this all-revealing functionality with far better read and recovery mechanisms, scanning for lost files functionality, workarounds for a wide range of drive and software bugs, limitations or shortcomings and you have an enormously powerful data recovery tool. IsoBuster is must-have-software for every PC user and is deliberately kept low priced to be able to offer a solution for everybody.

v3.4 [Aug 23, 2014]
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
- 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 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"

v3.3 [Nov 28, 2013]
- 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 file.
- 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.
- FAT Improvement.
- 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

v3.2 [May 13, 2013]
Changes:
On Windows VISTA and higher, if you do not run in admin mode by default (UAC not disabled) you get the UAC (User Account Control) popup each time when you start IsoBuster. This is because admin rights are required to talk to Hard Drives and USB/Flash drives etc. However, in this version, if you disable listing Hard Drives and Flash drives in Options or during install, then you don't get the UAC anymore. The same is true when you run the shell command "extract" or when you start IsoBuster with command line parameters /nodrives or /nohd.
Support for GPT (GUID) Partition formatting
Also list empty card readers etc. when detected. Insert a card, hit refresh, and IsoBuster will show the content, like it does on optical media
Windows 7 (and higher) progress indication via the taskbar
Added the ability to choose how the VIDEO_TS\VTS_0x_0x.VOB file size is determined in the VIDEO file-system (Via Options)
Implemented extra columns in Listview (Blocks, Offset, Last LBA, Attributes)
List unallocated space as a hidden partition, provided it has a reasonable size
File signature recognition for *.cr2 (Canon photo format)
Improvements:
Improvements for Floppy/Diskette detection
Improvements for finding NTFS file systems (for instance when there's no partition data to start from)
Try to guess the correct code page of CD-Text on an Audio CD based on its Language field
Allow columns order to be changed
Popup to enable/disable columns
Store new column order, width, hidden etc.
Which column is sorted, and in what direction, is now shown properly
Once a column header is clicked to sort, that sorting order is also applied to every other folder you browse to
Various speed and memory allocation improvements throughout the code, noticeable during all sorts of functions.
Always use code page 10000 when parsing HFS, this improves special characters display such as the small TM in the top corner
Improvements in the detection between optical and other type media image files with shared extensions (e.g. .img)
Removed older Win9x / NT4 / Aspi related settings from Options / Communication
Introduced ability to start IsoBuster with only optical / only other than optical / both or none at all.
Added command line switches: /nocd and /nohd
Improved scanning for lost files and folders by reducing false positives for certain FAT and UDF structures
Exposed more settings via Options / GUI / Messages, for which a popup occured but no way to change it again existed
Various other smaller GUI improvements
Fixes:
Fixed a possible exception error when scanning for lost files and folders on VR discs
Fixed several excpetion errors that could occur while scanning for lost files and folders, due to buggy MS Office documents detection code.
Fixed issue that would prevent ibp images files of other-than-optical media to be accessed properly at all times, because space outside the partitions would stay hidden.
Fixed issue that caused an extended partition to be shown as well even though it contained other partitions
Fixed issue that sometimes prevented IsoBuster to see all partitions
Fixed it so that partitions are sorted, since the partition table may not be sorted
Fixed issue causing multi-session optical discs not to produce correct image files all the time.
Fixed rare exception errors when opening certain image files where IsoBuster needed to detect optical vs. HD/Flash etc.
Fixed rare stack overflow error when deleting a file.
Fixed rare exception error when the 'Default' button is clicked in Options

v3.1 [Dec 14, 2012]
Changes:
On Windows VISTA and higher, if you do not run in admin mode by default (UAC not disabled) you get the UAC (User Account Control) popup each time when you start IsoBuster. This is because admin rights are required to talk to Hard Drives and USB/Flash drives etc. However, in this version, if you disable listing Hard Drives and Flash drives in Options or during install, then you don't get the UAC anymore. The same is true when you run the shell command "extract" or when you start IsoBuster with command line parameters /nodrives or /nohd.
Support for GPT (GUID) Partition formatting
Also list empty card readers etc. when detected. Insert a card, hit refresh, and IsoBuster will show the content, like it does on optical media
Windows 7 (and higher) progress indication via the taskbar
Added the ability to choose how the VIDEO_TS\VTS_0x_0x.VOB file size is determined in the VIDEO file-system (Via Options)
Implemented extra columns in Listview (Blocks, Offset, Last LBA, Attributes)
List unallocated space as a hidden partition, provided it has a reasonable size
File signature recognition for *.cr2 (Canon photo format)
Improvements:
Improvements for Floppy/Diskette detection
Improvements for finding NTFS file systems (for instance when there's no partition data to start from)
Try to guess the correct code page of CD-Text on an Audio CD based on its Language field
Allow columns order to be changed
Popup to enable/disable columns
Store new column order, width, hidden etc.
Which column is sorted, and in what direction, is now shown properly
Once a column header is clicked to sort, that sorting order is also applied to every other folder you browse to
Various speed and memory allocation improvements throughout the code, noticeable during all sorts of functions.
Always use code page 10000 when parsing HFS, this improves special characters display such as the small TM in the top corner
Improvements in the detection between optical and other type media image files with shared extensions (e.g. .img)
Removed older Win9x / NT4 / Aspi related settings from Options / Communication
Introduced ability to start IsoBuster with only optical / only other than optical / both or none at all.
Added command line switches: /nocd and /nohd
Improved scanning for lost files and folders by reducing false positives for certain FAT and UDF structures
Exposed more settings via Options / GUI / Messages, for which a popup occured but no way to change it again existed
Various other smaller GUI improvements
Fixes:
Fixed a possible exception error when scanning for lost files and folders on VR discs
Fixed several excpetion errors that could occur while scanning for lost files and folders, due to buggy MS Office documents detection code.
Fixed issue that would prevent ibp images files of other-than-optical media to be accessed properly at all times, because space outside the partitions would stay hidden.
Fixed issue that caused an extended partition to be shown as well even though it contained other partitions
Fixed issue that sometimes prevented IsoBuster to see all partitions
Fixed it so that partitions are sorted, since the partition table may not be sorted
Fixed issue causing multi-session optical discs not to produce correct image files all the time.
Fixed rare exception errors when opening certain image files where IsoBuster needed to detect optical vs. HD/Flash etc.
Fixed rare stack overflow error when deleting a file.
Fixed rare exception error when the 'Default' button is clicked in Options

v3.0 [Mar 29, 2012]
To try and pour it in a list, here are the newly supported disks / drives:
- Thumb / Flash drives
- SD disks / drives
- Compact disks / drives
- MMC disks / drives
- SSD disks / drives
- Jaz disks / drives
- Zip disks / drives
- Floppy disks / drives
- HD disks / drives
The newly supported File System:
- NTFS

v2.8 [May 17, 2010]
Changes:
- A great deal of new extensions were added to the signature detection which happens during a search for missing files and folders. Besides a large number of various files, picture formats and multimedia files there's now also accurate detection of documents such as: *.wpd, *.sdw, *.odt, *.sxw, *.sxc, *.sxi, *.sxm, *.std, *.ott, *.ots, *.ods, *.odb, *.odg, *.odf, *.odp, *.wb2, *.nsf, *.max and most Office document formats, such as *.doc, *.docx, *.xls, *.xlsx, *.ppt, *.pptx, *mdb, *.pst, *.pub, *.vsd, *.rtf, *.db, *.one, *.wri, *.msi
- Command line support has been enhanced with a large number of new parameters and combinations. Besides initiating "/scan" and extracting the files found based on their signature "sig:" there is now also the possibility to extract "all:" tracks / sessions / file systems, dynamically change the names of the extract-to files or folders, export file-lists ("/tree") based on a number of parameters/ tokens etc.
Improvements:
- UDF scan for missing files improvements, so that in case of many references to VAT tables not the same sectors are read again and again, and so that duplicate UDF FS are not listed anymore
- Updated EWF support to the latest and greatest status of the LibEWF project
- Ability to "OK to all" on Windows IO errors during extraction to avoid X amount of such dialogs when multiple files are processed
- Always display a message after a forced online check, even if it is the most recent version, and even if the user set not to display beta or final version warnings
- The cue file full path was displayed in the Save Dialog control instead of only the filename.
- Ability to build lists, showing the extents of fragmented files. [Business] feature.
- Various other GUI improvements
Fixes:
- Small issue that caused some DVD IBP/IBQ images to be recognised as CD, so that they could not be completed anymore, etc.

v2.5 [Dec 20, 2008]
New of this version find new plugins, a multi-language installation wizard and german, spanish, italian and french help files. In addition new Command line parameters were added and new image compatibility like .ncd and .orf.

v2.5 [Dec 7, 2008]
New of this version find new plugins, a multi-language installation wizard and german, spanish, italian and french help files. In addition new Command line parameters were added and new image compatibility like .ncd and .orf.

v2.3 [Apr 21, 2009]
New features, improvements, bug fixes (see: http://www.isobuster.com/news/)