IsoBuster is a utility that will allow you to read all your damaged optical discs: CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, or HD-DVD, looking for the files to try to recover them, and thus not having to consider them as lost. On the other hand, we cannot lose sight of the fact that this tool is also useful for other storage elements, among which we can mention, for example, physical hard disks or USB memories.

The operation of this platform is effortless since, in the first instance, you have to open the space where the files you think you will be able to read are located. Even when you are aware that it is damaged, the program will try to read it, and for that, you will see a panel that will offer you information about the different partitions of the same tracks, etc.

If the system can read different contents, you can create an image ISO with all of them to recreate them raw. In the meantime, if it finds no files, you will see a form in which we have to add a series of data so that the process does not stop early.

Once the procedure is finished and you have created your ISO image, you will see that you have different options to work on it, from saving it to a new media or, if you prefer, processing it on its application for locating deleted files. The best is that the options are emerging as we move forward, and in most cases, it is unnecessary to perform them manually.

In what formats is this application compatible? With an immensity of the most recognized of the segment, although we can mention some, for example:

• DVD-R
• DVD-ROM
• CD-R
• CD-ROM

As we said at the beginning, beyond what happens with discs, this platform can also work on top of Flash-type memories, storage devices in which we can carry many of our important files. If you think you have lost some content that you were carrying on the Pendrive or any USB solution, you must know that you can also scan them with this service.

About additional functions to the basic ones that have this system, you have to consider some as the power to convert files between different image formats or allow you to recover data from a CD-RW that has been formatted. Of course, although originally it is not, we can use this application in other languages and thus facilitate many tasks that otherwise are more difficult to access.

As a differential element between IsoBuster and other similar applications, we have to mention without a doubt that you can save all sessions that we have opened, and that means that if you want to recover a session even when you have closed it, you can do so. This is an option that works similarly to backups, which can save you on more than one exceptional occasion.

Another feature we did not want to mention is the location of file extensions, which do not have any origin, from the search for information on each file in question. Thanks to this operation, extensions are assigned by the program to the recovered elements so that once at your disposal, you can open them without problems.

Do you usually work with Nero? You have to consider this an irreplaceable complementary platform since it will allow you to view and recover all discontinued or complete Nero projects, which have been stored on your CDs, DVDs, BDs, or HD DVDs, so keep that in mind.

And, of course, the broad support of all types of content we can recover is crucial in these cases, highlighting the possibility of working with Linux EXT, Rimage Encrypted, or GameCube (GC) file systems. At the same time, you can work with partitions DOS / Windows, EFI / GUID (GPT), HFS / Mac, or EMBR. As you can see, this is a real Swiss army knife for recovering all kinds of content from your drives.

Among the main advantages of IsoBuster over the many similar programs that exist, we have to point out first of all the ease of use it offers, and secondly, the possibility of rescuing a huge amount of files that otherwise we would have to give for lost definitively.

In our experience, IsoBuster has proven to be a very stable program that doesn't cause any inconvenience, such as slowing down the computer or the always annoying unexpected shutdowns. So, if you are looking for software with the features that we have been pointing out so far, you have to know that, without a doubt, this is one of the best current free alternatives.

Finally, and although we have not mentioned them here, you have to know that there are some other functions or features of this application that are incorporated as long as we pay for the Premium alternative of this program, something that we consider is not necessary almost in any case because its free version is complete.