Despite the mental image of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray hosing
down poltergeists, IsoBuster isn't a disc wiping utility or some
such, but a recovery program that can retrieve data from damaged or
accidentally reformatted CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray discs. Success will
vary with the problem (the disc must be at least readable by the
drive), but I did manage to grab some data from a deliberately
reformatted CD-RW. IsoBuster supports ISO9660, Joliet, UDF and even
the Mac HFS/HFS+ systems.
IsoBuster's other claim to fame is its ability to read and extract
data from a large number of image formats (images are the contents
of an entire disc or partition written to a single file). Supported
formats include Mac .dmg files and those from most of the big
vendors, notably Nero's .nrg. Check the Web site for a full list of
supported formats.
If you need to recover data from an optical disc that Windows or
other programs won't recognize, IsoBuster is definitely worth a
shot. It's an affordable gamble and doubles as a handy image
reader/extractor (though if that's all you need, the free Daemon
Tools is a better bet).
--Jon L. Jacobi
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IsoBuster
- Version: 2.7
- Downloads Count: 208,018
- License Type: 30 Day Trial
- Price: $30
- Date Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7
- Requirements: Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
- File Size: 5.187 MB
- Author: Smart Projects
Editorial Review of IsoBuster
Reviewed by: rolinx2
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