Peter,
Once AGAIN you saved me HOURS and from kicking myself for not making backups of backups. I recently bought a Plextor PX-716A CD/DVD read write drive. It is supposed to be the newest and the greatest thing on the market. The PX716A actually has two lasers one for -R and the other for +R.
I didn't see any problems (up the road with ANY of the formatting programs I had been using for years on this drive. What, with two lasers it must emulate everything right?...WRONG. It seems all the 'data' disks (on DVD's) that I, added data to (on the PX716A), are virtually unusable. First, I broke into a sweat then frantically installed the 'old' DVD drive thinking, "ok, I'll just use this, for retrieving my data, I can live with that." WRONG again, the 'old' DVD drive can't retrieve ANYTHING now either.
Windows 'Explorer' which I used to 'drag' files to the formatted DVD disk just 'hangs' now! Then I remembered ISOBuster. After several minutes there were ALL my files! After a few minutes of whimpering, sobbing. I calmed down enough to start dragging all the files to my hard disk. I had ABSOLUTELY no problems. Your program didn't hang-up it did the job very nicely.
I feel indebted to you and relieved. I'm writing this because I know people, just don't take the time to thank you for, a JOB WELL DONE. I only hear from the 'complainers'. I have my own engineering (hardware design) company and I know if, I don't hear from my customers they're either happy or too disgusted to comment. I RARELY ever hear from the happy customers.
Once again, thank you've saved me from a LOT of heartache and a LOT of time recovering what I thought was lost data forever. Well worth the price (over and over again).

Terry L. Rayborne

I wanted to say thanks for developing IsoBuster, a great little lifesaver. Thinking my data was safe, months ago I archived precious information to CDRW using Roxio directCD. Then the other day, strange things started happening. On one CDRW, all my photo files were inaccessible. What ? Arg ! Oh, well. These files had been backed up on a portable Hard Disk. (But what was going on with my disk ?) Incidentally, I tried using Roxio’s recovery utility but it was about on par with the DOS CHKDSK of old. Next my archived documents CD was behaving strangely. Files were “read-only” and unerasable. Other problems started to other files on this disk. I couldn’t copy them off. My computer started locking up when I tried to access the drive. I was terrified. Fortunately, at Roxio’s website, a forum message clued me in to your IsoBuster. And the rest, as they say, is history. You are my hero. Ha ! I would be in deep weeds if you had not created this little miracle. Thx !

Russell J. Bennett from Houston, TX

I purchase you recovery program and I am amazed with your program. I had one CD that my computer didn't recognized anymore and you program really works great. I was able to recover 10.7 MB of images in just a few minutes. I was also amazed how fast and easy it was to use.

Thank you
Gaylon Janes.

Than you so much for this wonderful program. I was creating a project for a client in Ulead DVD Picture Maker (very limited in functionality) and got to the final step of burning to CD and for some reason it would not encode (?) extract (?) the proper files to allow for DVD viewing. The program also does not have a functioning player to allow you to preview the Picture Show. (I wasted about 20 hours and 20 cds trying to get this to work!) In the process I was doing some research on the internet and came across your program. I could not believe I was able to extact a .dat file from an image file and do a straight conversion to MPEG Video. AMAZING! You have taken my business to a new level! I haven't even needed to use all the other powerful features yet, but I am sure I will sometime. I will definitely be registering for the full version because you deserve the support for creating and making available such a wonderful product.

Thanks again. This is amazing! I'll be passing the word on.
Brynley Edens

Greetings ! ISO Buster worked perfectly, saving me a great deal of work re-inputting a large number of newspaper reports from the 18th Century. It also recovered a great quantity of stuff that I had downloaded from the Web. Since this was a single CD (and there are some others I must have a look at some time later) the cost of €20 was a great deal less than the amount of time saved. The best software purchase I have made in a very long time. Regards.

Michael Harron

Thanks for a great utility, saved my skin, I had lost all my digi photos from past Holidays, recovered them all, can highly recommend, many thanks !

K Atherton

Thanks for an excellent product. Through out my life, I am 61 now, I have often found it necessary to have aids to assists in accessing various storage media when things go wrong or we did something to mess things up. I often have to access floppy disk that for many reasons the operating system is unable to read. You 'IsoBuster' is as far that I have seen is the only software that will access CD, etc when other fail.

Stephen Phillips

Eureka, it works and I salvaged the photos that I thought I had lost.
I really appreciate the help that you gave me.

Paul Hitch

I just recovered 1 1/2 months of family photos I had been storing on CD using Adaptec Direct CD... Long story short: Windows crashed while the CD was open, it never properly closed out its session and I was stuck with a CD that couldn't be read by any machine I had access to. Thanks to IsoBuster, the files were extracted off that disk and safely stored elsewhere. Very Cool !

Joe

      A few days ago, I was burning new information to a multi-session CD-R when for some reason still not clear to me, the cd appeared to be completely erased except for the last session. The last session (5th) was approx. 17 meg of (supposedly added) data. Where did the other 285 meg of data go? Ozone!

      I was using EZCD Creator 5 and until this happened, was extremely satisfied with its performance. EZCD Creator was able to access the "missing" sessions (or so it seemed) and allowed me to export each one to my HD as an .ISO file. Once I had completed this, I abrated the CD surface to insure nobody else could get at my data. It then went into the trashcan. So far, so good. EZCD Creator also claims to be able to write a CD from an .ISO file which I did. However, though the burns were successful, the CD was unreadable by any cd drive. Oh-Oh...

      I searched the internet for information on extracting data from .ISO files to again try to recover my lost data. I found information on several applications (including yours). All (but yours) had some restrictions (if not registered) or failings associated with them. So, I tried yours first. It seemed the most promising. I launched your application (which said no media was present), but used the file menu and selected "Open image file". I attempted to open the .ISO files with no success. Appearently, they were corrupted. I attempted to read from the CDs burned from the .ISO files and they reported "pathtable" and "directory" errors. They could not be recovered. I was ready to give up. Then, I thought, what about the original CD? It had some surface damage, but perhaps I could recover something. So I tried it. I had nothing to lose.

      I recovered all 5 sessions without a problem. I did not even get any read errors which I really expected. I'm sure the CD drive had something to do with this, but without your software, it would not have been nearly enough. I registered and paid the price for your software the same day.

      Thanks a million! (Or more precisely, 285 million!)

L. Wagner
San Diego, Ca.
USA

... here's my story.

I run windows 98se,i live in Egypt and over the years i'd always come across media ,cds in particular from friends etc that had files named in Arabic, sometimes in other Unicode or non-Latin based characters like Hebrew, or even Russian.
normally the English version of 98 was unable to read/copy those kind of files , i'm aware that this is not a problem on other recent OS from Microsoft or other OS with localized/enabled languages features.
due to frustration i sometimes would install other OS just to over come this particular problem even though I'm a very devoted 98se user.
i faced this problem in floppy disks as well, but it was easily resolved with a program called gemxplor that was actually written to read files on Mac media from a windows platform. though the program worked perfectly with disks in converting those names into Latin based ,however it was not able to access files on cds because it always assumed the CDs to be scsi (Mac-formatted).

anyways i tried everything for years to makes my 98se read those kind of files from cds, even replacing kernel and shell files from the Arabic enabled version of 98se or sometimes from windows me, only to render my machine unbootable in some cases and go through endless restorations of backups.
i didn't want to install the Arabic version of 98 for updates/patches reasons, because not all ms patches were available to localized versions.

eventually I'd give up, then every now and then i'd give it a try ..i always knew of IsoBuster but never thought of it to address that issue because my idea of IsoBuster was relating to iso/bin ripping only. today i was googling about unreadable media due to non-Latin file names and i came across IsoBuster. I was very skeptical and i wasn't getting my hopes up...i popped in one of my pc mag cds that had IsoBuster on it. installed it, then gave it a test on a cd that had all names in Arabic, IsoBuster converted the names to Latin and i'm now able to run them, copy and extract just like gemxplor does with floppies. I've tested IsoBuster with cds with Greek / Russian and Hebrew names and it works all the time.

i am very grateful for this remarkable piece of software.
thanks a lot!

YK, EgyptA

Somebody gave me the 10-4 on your site in re: to ISO Buster.
It is TOO COOL. I just burned a bunch of cds that would have
taken me all night to correct errors and probably burn a couple
of coasters, but ISO Buster did it all right the first time!!!

c parker

Great program, Keep up the good work

VanHagar, Hampstead , maryland USA -

I just want to say the neat appz on your page are very kewl and helpful. ISO Buster safes a lot of my wasted data on CD. Were Windoz can't read the CD, ISO Buster still read everything...

Floris Vink, Utrecht, Holland -

You really know your stuff. Thank you. I am very impressed

Kevin, Chesapeake, VA USA -