Best Software for Damaged Ext4 Filesystem
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IsoBuster
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lcoughey":oagty6zz said:
I wrote the release notes yesterday, so that my translators can have a go at it.
So I had to put down a date and I set it for June 5th (the beta version).
Maybe you can check out that version then
www.isobuster.com/beta/
If you guys are going to branch out beyond optical media, perhaps a name change is in order for the software...might become a point of confusion.
By the way, you mentioned a possibility of an early release beta? If you want I'll gladly take a look at it, even write up a quick review post of it. I'd love to see what you've done with it.
By the way, you mentioned a possibility of an early release beta? If you want I'll gladly take a look at it, even write up a quick review post of it. I'd love to see what you've done with it.
IsoBuster
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IsoBuster started supporting HD, SD, USB stick, Floppy etc. since version 3.0 which was released 3 years ago already 
PS. it's just me myself and I, no guys (other than me) here
I know, I should have changed the name and many feel I should have made one or more other applications etc.
You know ... one for FAT, NTFS etc. or one for SD card, HD etc. (more $ basically) but I don't want to do any of that (not that I can't use more $)
One application that does everything is my aim. And IsoBuster has a good reputation, so I don't want to change that either.
It's what it is, nothing is perfect and as you can imagine, marketing is not my priority.
To get a feel for the new functionality in 3.x you should scan through the release notes of 3.0 - 3.5 here: www.isobuster.com/news/
Allright, I'm in the middle of something (code wise) but once that is done (soon) I'll make a temporary download available. I'll post here with a follow up.
I'll also copy the new release notes here then, since it's not going to be online until the 5th next month.
PS. it's just me myself and I, no guys (other than me) here
I know, I should have changed the name and many feel I should have made one or more other applications etc.
You know ... one for FAT, NTFS etc. or one for SD card, HD etc. (more $ basically) but I don't want to do any of that (not that I can't use more $)
One application that does everything is my aim. And IsoBuster has a good reputation, so I don't want to change that either.
It's what it is, nothing is perfect and as you can imagine, marketing is not my priority.
To get a feel for the new functionality in 3.x you should scan through the release notes of 3.0 - 3.5 here: www.isobuster.com/news/
Allright, I'm in the middle of something (code wise) but once that is done (soon) I'll make a temporary download available. I'll post here with a follow up.
I'll also copy the new release notes here then, since it's not going to be online until the 5th next month.
IsoBuster
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Ok, try this: www.isobuster.com/downloads/isobuster/tempbeta.exe
I'll remove this beta again later on.
The latest release notes (IsoBuster 3.6) :
Changes / New:
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
(*) Full exploration of this file system is not implemented but now an investigator can see if it is present
Improvements:
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 OMMIT 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
Various GUI improvements
Fixes:
Fixed GUI issue that caused incorrect values to be displayed in certain error messages
Fixed possible hang when EWF image files are loaded
Fixed that sometimes the sanitizing part after finding missing files and folders on a FAT volume could take 'forever', due to bad FAT records.
Fixed data-corruption issue, introduced in 3.5, while extracting files with more than 10 extents (fragments would be extracted in the wrong order)
Fixed it so that when an IBP/IBQ is made twice in a row from the same media (without a refresh) the bitmap is still fully written out to the IBP
Avoid exception error on bad IBP without (enough) bitmap data (rare test case)
Fixed extraction of named streams of an NTFS folder (not file)
I'll remove this beta again later on.
The latest release notes (IsoBuster 3.6) :
Changes / New:
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
(*) Full exploration of this file system is not implemented but now an investigator can see if it is present
Improvements:
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 OMMIT 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
Various GUI improvements
Fixes:
Fixed GUI issue that caused incorrect values to be displayed in certain error messages
Fixed possible hang when EWF image files are loaded
Fixed that sometimes the sanitizing part after finding missing files and folders on a FAT volume could take 'forever', due to bad FAT records.
Fixed data-corruption issue, introduced in 3.5, while extracting files with more than 10 extents (fragments would be extracted in the wrong order)
Fixed it so that when an IBP/IBQ is made twice in a row from the same media (without a refresh) the bitmap is still fully written out to the IBP
Avoid exception error on bad IBP without (enough) bitmap data (rare test case)
Fixed extraction of named streams of an NTFS folder (not file)
