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Started 17 years ago by Anonymous
Latest reply from maz

Anonymous
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The Ultimate CD and DVD data recovery software! Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD!
Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup ... IsoBuster can do it all!

One tool, to support all formats, for only one very democratic price. No accumulated cost if you need more than one type media supported.

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use CD and DVD data recovery tool. It supports all CD and DVD formats and all common CD and DVD file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a CD or DVD, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_isobuster/

Posted 17 years ago #
Theleecher
Member

Not quite "free", as free functionality excludes certain features - not sure if it is also capacity limited. I'd say filehippo are wrong to tag it as "freeware"

On the other hand maybe something worth trying to get a GOTD offer of?

Posted 17 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

It's a fairly grey area I believe.

The program is definitely free (price) as it stands. However whether you consider the program is "missing features" or "crippled" or that an enhanced "non-freeware" version is available for purchase really depends on your viewpoint.

If additional features can be purchased for a price, does that make the free program crippled or limited?

I think if the features aren't artificial limits (eg you can have 2000 Clients or 15 clients in the free version, or you can burn CDs at 48x speed, or 4x speed in the free version - then I would consider these limits. If like in the case of isobuster, the paid version also support Bluray discs - and the free version doesn't this I feel is an entire new feature.

Posted 17 years ago #
pauloparra
Member

Lee,

Thank you for letting us know the same day the beta went gold. I've been using the free part of isobuster for years to check the readability of all the files written on a cd/dvd and they are always right. It is a great tool, even if you don't buy the extra features.

Thank you again,

-Mario

Posted 17 years ago #
Theleecher
Member

I guess it's a another category of freeware, as quite a few programs have a free and pro mode.
The "ware glossary" for ACF describes the common meanings
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php

Out of those, it would seem that "liteware" is closer than "crippleware", the latter term generally used for software with little practical functionality remaining. Commercial software is usually abbreviated to "$-ware" in the ACF newsgroup.

Posted 17 years ago #
Bobby
Member

LEE! Bless You! I've been saving 'unreadable' disks that have some important information (taxes!), hoping there would be a program .. someday .. that could rescue them for me. Thank you for the heads up on this little gem!

Posted 17 years ago #
JEG88
Member

u can dl an 'ENGLISH ONLY' vers.[2.1] from their site:

* http://www.smart-projects.net/dl.php?v=2&l=2

================================================

FREEWARE VRS SHAREWARE POLICY:

http://www.smart-projects.net/license-models.php

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VERSION HISTORY:

" " "/help.php?help=60

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:)

Posted 17 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

Well I'm not sure what that post means....
("VERSION HISTORY: " " "/help.php?help=60" looks very cryptic)

But @JEG88 - "u can dl an 'ENGLISH ONLY' vers.[2.1] from their site:"

You can run ISOBuster using over 30 different languages.
http://www.smart-projects.net/download_dll.php

Posted 17 years ago #
JEG88
Member

[for BUBBY]:

VERSION HISTORY:

http://www.smart-projects.net/help.php?help=60

>[thought it was obvious]>> " " = means the line repeats whats above it =[same site..].

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The "ENGLISH ONLY" version DL [=download] is a smaller sized DL [takes up less space] then the "FULL VERSION", obviously, because there's only ONE not ALL the languages included.

I was trying to help those who are concerned w/ space.
Why install all 30 languages if u don't need them?

** You can choose to add the ones u want via separate "Language Plug-ins":

>> * http://www.smart-projects.net/download_dll.php << **

-[Installation Info. on pg.]
--------------------------------

~hope this helps~

Posted 17 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

Oh ok. Thanks for explaining your post.

@ " " "/help.php?help=60

Please just post the full URL, so it can be clicked on. Thanks.

Posted 17 years ago #
JEG88
Member

Just to clear up any confusion;
This is what their site says about the 'FREE vrs. PRO' versions:
[see the 'CHART' to compare and read more on this pg. = http://www.smart-projects.net/license-models.php ]

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>>> If you install IsoBuster and want to make use of the free functionality only, click the "Free Functionality" button when prompted.
If you run into functionality that needs to be paid for, you will be prompted. There are no hidden features so you need not to wonder what a paid for version would show extra. You can safely install IsoBuster on your system, there are no xx-days limitations to the free use, you may install at work or wherever you like.
For a registration : pay online and get a key sent to you automatically on payment verification.

All functionality prior to version 1.0 is free and remains free. All functionality related to the ISO9660, Joliet, Rock Ridge, El Torito and CD-i file-systems, everything related to Video CDs and all image-file making functionality is free. So, finding data, extracting (copying) data etc. is free.

Part of the functionality related to the UDF and HFS(+) file-systems is not free and needs to be paid for. This is the extraction of files that come from the UDF [drag & drop software] or HFS(+) [Macintosh] file-systems. So, all functionality is present, including scanning and finding of lost files, but if you actually want to extract (copy) a file from the UDF or HFS file-system you need a valid registration. <<<

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Sounds like a great deal to me!!
The Free vers. looks just as good. -[but I'm not familiar w/ most of the Pros features, so...]
The PRO does have = 1] Surface Scan (on BD and HD DVD)
2] Extract From -To (on BD and HD DVD)
--which you'd probably want if u have 'High Def.'
~~I don't know what "BD" is though ,-{anyone?}.

Anyway, THANKS LEE for letting us know! -
-Now I can replace my old vers.!! :)

Posted 17 years ago #
Luli1031
Member

Isobuster is great

Posted 16 years ago #
maz
Member

My only reservation about Isobuster is the specialised format .daa file that it uses to save video files. When I tried the free version, you could extract and view .daa files, but you couldn't copy more than 300M to CD or DVD unless you paid for the full version. This may have changed with the new version of Isobuster, course

Posted 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

I think you might be thinking of PowerISO that has the 300MB limit while unregistered.

ISOBuster Free vs. Pro

ISO Buster has no such "size" limits. (Just mostly limits on what you can do with HD DVD and BD Ripping & Images)

Posted 16 years ago #
maz
Member

BuBBy,
Many apologies, I was confusing it with PowerISO.

Posted 16 years ago #

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