IsoBuster License models
Following is a rough list of the main features. There are so many associated features that they cannot be listed all. But as they are all connected to a type of file-system or a type of media etc. they fall under a similar registration type.
A lot of knowledge, experience, research and effort has been put into this small but powerful application. It goes without saying that a registration, even for the free functionality, is appreciated. Consider it a contribution to the research then. You never know when you will have need for the registration-restricted functionality. The cost of a Personal license is deliberately kept low to be able to offer a solution to everybody. High end software for a democratic price is a major priority for Smart Projects, yet it requires some fair play of everybody to be able to guarantee continuity.
Professionals and enthusiasts will also find very specialized features, ready for their needs in the Professional and Enterprise versions. Businesses and organisations, no matter what type business they're in, need to purchase a Professional or Enterprise license. An Enterprise license provides any forensics investigator, law enforcement officer, data recovery specialist, (file system) developer or Engineer a powerful tool in the utility belt.
| Features | Free | Personal | Professional | Enterprise |
| One license for both 32bit and 64bit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifetime license, No subscription | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free upgrades in the 5.x range | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ideal for Forensics, Data Recovery labs, Law Enforcement, Development, Engineering, Libraries, .. | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Private use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional use | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for: CD, DVD, BD, HDDVD, HDD, SSD, Diskette, Floppy, various type memory cards, USB sticks, .. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scan for missing files, folders, orphaned file systems aka data carving | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scan for missing files, folders, orphaned file systems aka data carving using custom defined file signature rules | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Scan for missing files, folders, orphaned file systems aka data carving over a custom defined range of blocks | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Save a list of currently found files, based on their signature (*.ibr) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Load a (*.ibr) list of currently found files and resume scanning | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from a loaded (*.ibr) list of currently found files | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open a plethora of image files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open spanned image files and drives | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.GI Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.PXI Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.VMDK Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.VDI Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.VHD Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.VHDX Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.RMG Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Extract files from *.E01 Image files (SectorView and Properties also limited) | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Extract files from (S)VCD discs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from CD-i discs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from High Sierra file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from ISO9660 file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Joliet file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Rock Ridge file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract El Torito boot sectors | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from UDF file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Apple MFS file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Apple HFS(+) file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract Video files from IFO / VOB file systems (also extract to *.MPG) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from FAT (12 / 16 / 32) file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from ExFAT file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from NTFS file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from XFS file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from EXT file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from ReFS file systems | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Rimage file systems | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Extract files found based on their signature via data carving | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Dreamcast file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Playstation file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from XISO file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from FATX file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Nintendo file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Opera 3DO file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from Amiga DOS file systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract Images and files to spanned files and drives | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access and extract NTFS Alternate data streams | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access and extract UDF named streams | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract UDF named streams to NTFS Alternate data streams | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access and extract MFS/HFS(+) resource forks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract MFS/HFS(+) resource forks to NTFS Alternate data streams | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract MacBinary files | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access and extract individual file extents (fragments) | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Define your own files (start, offset, length, extents,...) and Extract them | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Toshiba Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Toshiba Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Pioneer Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Pioneer Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Sony Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Sony Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Panasonic Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Panasonic Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Philips Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Philips Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Magnavox Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Magnavox Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported LiteOn Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported LiteOn Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported RCA Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported RCA Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Medion Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Medion Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Replay TV Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Replay TV Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Showstopper Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported ShowstopperVideo recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Thomson Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Thomson Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract files from supported Funai Video recorder hard disks | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engineering (SectorView, Properties, ..) on supported Funai Video recorder hard disks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create and open generic image files (*.iso, *.cue, *.dsk) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create managed (multi pass) *.ibp/*.ibq image files | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open managed (multi pass) *.ibp/*.ibq image files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Completion of managed (multi pass) *.ibp/*.ibq image files (exception cases below) | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Completion of a Managed (IBP / IBQ) Image file from a non-managed image file | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed (IBP / IBQ) Image file Engineering with powerful features such as retrying certain areas, completion of a range, exporting block ranges etc. | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Managed (IBP / IBQ) Image file completion on demand, by reading only sectors that are required for whatever action you trigger | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Completion of a Managed (IBP / IBQ) Image file from media which layout doesn't fully match | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Completion of a Managed (IBP / IBQ) Image file from another managed image file (merge managed image files) | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Clone a partition or entire disk | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clone a partition or entire disk - but managed, keeping track of bad sectors that can be retried (Similar to managed image files *.ibp/*.ibq) | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Readability test (Surface scan) on CD and DVD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Readability test (Surface scan) on BD, HDD, SSD | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mount Rainier (MRW) Remapping | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom Read Remapping | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Generate predefined reports (includes XML and DFXML) | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export and import report templates (*.ibtmpl) | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Extract From - To on CD and DVD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extract From - To on BD, HDD, SSD, .. | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sector View on CD and DVD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sector View on BD, HDD, SSD, .. | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for virtual sessions inside a physical session | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Additional text information for image files that support it | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Do not explore a drive once selected, only read the bare minimum | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Set a custom range before data carving | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Language support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support without compromising our work for paying customers | ✓ | - | - | - |
| Prompt support | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority support | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| High Tech, expert support | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Future features comparable to the functionality that deals with extended attributes, resource forks etc., managed image files etc. | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Future expert features, comparable to managed image file engineering etc. | - | - | - | ✓ |
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.
IMPORTANT, READ THIS ABOUT UPGRADES
You get free upgrades in the 5.x (major version) range if you purchase a license!
If you have an older license for IsoBuster 1.x - 4.x, please read about our upgrade policy -
because you are entitled to a 30% discount, if you renew your IsoBuster license NOW.