Smart Projects has released Isobuster version 4.2. This program specializes in reading bad or damaged CDs and DVDs, and in many cases can still recover files that are no longer recognized by Windows. Another strong point of IsoBuster is that it can read almost any conceivable CD or DVD image format, including * .iso, * .bin, * .img, * .ccd and * .nrg. The program is largely free, only a few advanced features are only accessible to paying users. The exact details can be found on this page . Since version 3.0, the program can also handle all other internal and external storage media, such as hard drives, USB sticks and memory cards. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Changes / New:
Rewrote the options to look fresh and most importantly to be decluttered and intuitive again. Added to that, now 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 auto-selected (not the default option)
Search (now by default) searches the most important File System. For instance when a session is selected, all tracks and filesystems 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 transferred when reading raw (2352 bytes per block) on some systems
Ability to specify where the IBQ range ends, to influence the filling of the end starts [Professional license]
Implemented more flavors of Rimage Image files (* .rmg)
Show text portions of some image files via an extra option in the main menu (eg 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 normal text and text
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 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 or 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, but in theory also exists 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 and to measure time of export functionality
Added tags {% DFXML}, {% ISO8601}, and 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 ” characters in XML exports, but the caller can disable this with commands {% A>} and / or {% A