January 17th, 2012· Flash Data Recovery significantly updated. Added expected support of FAT 12 file system. This can be extremely useful if you still need to recover the lost pictures from old flash cards. Fixed a small bug when searching the deleted files.
· UDF Reader updated. Now, the program automatically searches for all available Virtual Allocation Tables (VATs) on write-once disc (CD-R/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+R DL/BD-R) with a single UDF session if the last VAT is not found or looks like corrupted. This issue sometimes occures on UDF discs with so-called "Live File system", created under Windows 7 or Vista.
· Extract To ISO Image File updated. Added several bugfixes and improvements.
October 17th, 2011· Extract To ISO Image File significantly updated. Now, you can extract data into ISO Image File (*.iso file) from CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs with the different file systems (UDF, ISO/Joliet, FAT 32), multisession discs and flash memory cards.
· Fixed a bug when reading Blu-ray discs with LG BH10 drives.
· "My Documents" is now a default folder for images created by CDRoller. Including an own files to manage disc sectors (.tbl and .dat files) and also Short CD/DVD Images (.cdi files).
· Numerous bugfixes and workarounds added.
May 10th, 2011· Examine Sectors is significantly updated. Added an ability to apply External Hex Editor for detailed analysis of sectors data on CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs. If you're constantly using a professional hex editor (WinHex, Hex Workshop, HxD, etc.) for engineering purposes, you can now connect it to CDRoller and review the sectors data in the most suitable manner.
· Moreover, if you've created CDRoller Image before, all changes in the sectors data saved by external editor will modify the image file. Further, you can recover files/folders, or extract a whole track(s), or create ISO Image File, and then burn a new disc with modified data. In other words, you have now an opportunity to edit as disc files as separate sectors without leaving CDRoller!
· Fixed the bug prevented a normal start of CDRoller under Windows Vista SP2 in some circumstances.
· Numerous bugfixes and workarounds added.
February 1st, 2011· Added an ability to create and manage an own image file.
Key features:
· allows to use many different drives on the different computers to read the bad disc (CD, DVD or Blu-ray one), adding the data that each new drive can read.
· skips the sectors that have been successfully read before.
· extremely increases a reading speed if you manage your disc many times.
· works with audio and mixed (data + audio) CDs too.
· Added an ability to get a few copies of Recover DVD Video option, running CDRoller from the Command Line with "/rdv" and "/drive letter" parameters. For example, CDRoller.exe /rdv /d . That allows to work with a several drives simultaneously and speed up the data recovery if you have a lot of problem DVD-video discs.
· The old Test Disc option updated. Added expected support of UDF discs.
Disc properties dialog updated:
· Added DVD Media tab with an additional info for advanced users.
· fixed a bug for write-once UDF disc (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, BD-R) when a track was marked as UDF under TOC Tracks tab but UDF file system was not placed on this track.
· File properties dialog updated. Added UDF Records tab with an additional info for advanced users.
· File Open and File Save dialogs support new "Vista style" under Windows Vista or 7. You can find these dialogs in the different options of CDRoller. For example in Split Video, Test Disc, Resume, Append and many others.
· Fixed an old bug when some dialogs accidently hid their components under Windows Vista/7.
· Support of Windows 95/98/ME/NT4 is officially canceled.
October 1st, 2010· Flash Data Recovery updated. Added support of m2ts files for Scan FAT Data option. This is definitely useful feature if you've lost AVCHD video files on the flash memory card or hard disk built in your camcorder. For example, if you re-formatted the hard disk drive due to HDD Format Error generated by Sony camcorder.
· Added some code to ignore so-called modem drives installed by phone software: "HUAWEI Mass Storage" and "Magic Jack". The both drives return CD-ROM types for Windows but can prevent a normal work of CDRoller.
· Minor bugs fixed.
May 17th, 2010· Recover DVD Video updated. Added an ability to select and scan multiple tracks at a time, if you intend to find all footages on the unfinalized DVD-R disc. This can be useful if you've got a lot of unfinalized DVD-Rs, created by your home DVD video recorder or DVD camcorder.
· Minor bugs fixed.
May 3rd, 2010· UDF Reader updated. Support of UDF Named Streams released.
· Recover DVD Video updated.
· Added an ability to read raw DVD sectors, ignoring the current disc state.
· Added new workarounds for correct analysis of CD/DVD media on some new computer drives.
· Forced scan updated.
April 9th, 2010· UDF Reader updated. Support of UDF Named Streams released. This can be useful if your UDF disc was created by Windows 7 (or Vista) built-in burner that took the files from NTFS partition together with Alternate Data Streams and then converted the NTFS Alternate Data streams to so-called UDF Named streams. Now, CDRoller displays UDF Named streams as separate files in the program window and automatically converts named streams to NTFS Alternate Data streams when you apply the Recover All or Recover Selected command.
· Recover DVD Video updated. Added an ability to read raw DVD sectors, ignoring the current disc state, even if the inserted DVD looks like a blank for Windows. However, this depends on the drive capabilities to read a raw data.
· Search of All VATs improved. Highly recommended if your write-once UDF disc (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, BD-R) was incorrectly closed or left as-is by CD/DVD/BD mastering software.
· Added new workarounds for correct analysis of CD/DVD media on some new computer drives.
· Forced scan updated. Added support of CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM and BD-R discs created by Roxio Drag-to-Disc v.9.
· Fixed a bug when reading UDF CD-Rs created by Sonic DLA.
April 9th, 2010· UDF Reader updated. Support of UDF Named Streams released. This can be useful if your UDF disc was created by Windows 7 (or Vista) built-in burner that took the files from NTFS partition together with Alternate Data Streams and then converted the NTFS Alternate Data streams to so-called UDF Named streams. Now, CDRoller displays UDF Named streams as separate files in the program window and automatically converts named streams to NTFS Alternate Data streams when you apply the Recover All or Recover Selected command.
· Recover DVD Video updated. Added an ability to read raw DVD sectors, ignoring the current disc state, even if the inserted DVD looks like a blank for Windows. However, this depends on the drive capabilities to read a raw data.
· Search of All VATs improved. Highly recommended if your write-once UDF disc (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, BD-R) was incorrectly closed or left as-is by CD/DVD/BD mastering software.
· Added new workarounds for correct analysis of CD/DVD media on some new computer drives.
· Forced scan updated. Added support of CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM and BD-R discs created by Roxio Drag-to-Disc v.9.
· Fixed a bug when reading UDF CD-Rs created by Sonic DLA.
January 4th, 2010· Improved code for search of the lost audio data on unfinalized CD. For example, if the recording process was accidently interrupted due to a failure of your standalone CD recorder, or power was cut off.
· Disc analysis updated. Added some basic guidelines how to find the lost data when your disc looks like an empty one under Windows OS.
· Fixed a bug when reading the directory tree on write-once discs (-R/+R discs) created by Roxio Drag-to-Disc v.9.
· Added a new Extract track data option into the Disc Properties dialog. This can be useful to create ISO Image file (*.iso file) from the UDF disc.
· Recover DVD Video updated with more intuitive user interface.
November 11th, 2009· Tests under Windows 7 successfully completed.
· Recover DVD Video updated with some improvements of user interface.
· Flash data recovery improved. Numerous bugfixes & workarounds added.
· Minor bugs fixed.
September 28th, 2009· Flash Data Recovery improved. Numerous bugfixes & workarounds added. Got a pretty good results when testing this option to find the accidently deleted video files on the Hard Disks Drives built into camcorders.
· Added support of Rock Ridge long file names. This can be useful if you initially recorded your disc under UNIX OS.
· Recover DVD Video updated. Added an intuitive selection of DVD camcorder based on the results of disc analysis. Improved algorithms for search of video data on the re-formatted DVD+RW discs.
May 11th, 2009Introduces a new major feature, Flash Data Recovery. In addition to the data recovery from optical storage media (CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs), CDRoller now supports flash memory cards and drives, such as SmartMedia, Memory Stick, CompactFlash and other flash memory devices, connected via USB port. Key features:
· Retrieves the lost pictures, video and other types of files, created by software and standalone devices (e.g. digital cameras),
· Restores accidently deleted files, including the photos deleted by digital cameras,
· Finds and retrieves files on the quick-formatted flash media,
· Allows to see the found pictures with the help of View Image option (even in the free trial version),
· Integrated into the same program shell. You can simply apply the same options (Recover All, Recover Selected, Resume Recovery, Find and others) to files and folders found on the flash media.
January 6th, 2009Added support of Blu-ray discs (BDs) and HD DVD. A new media formats are now supported by all program features, including:
· UDF Reader,
· Disc Analysis tools,
· Scan UDF Disc,
· Data Recovery options,
· Raw ISO Data Identifier,
· Data Burner and Eraser,
· Drive Capabilities Inspector,
· ISO Image File Extractor
· A list of supported file systems expanded. Added support of FAT32 for BD-RE and DVD-RAM discs. Includes a recovery of accidently deleted files. This can be useful if you selected FAT32 file system when formatting BD-RE or DVD-RAM discs under Windows XP or Vista.
· Added support of SPTD (SCSI Pass Through Direct) layer as alternative method for hardware access under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. The key feature of SPTD is an ability to avoid a conflict with 'malicious' filter drivers that can be installed by 3-rd party software.
· Recover DVD Video option is significantly updated. Added support of mini DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL, created by ACVHD camcorders.
· Forced scan updated. Added quick identification of M2TS files, recorded by ACVHD camcorders.
· DVD authoring engine updated. Better DVD-Video compatibility.
· CD/DVD/BD burner and eraser updated. Serious improvements and fixes in the data burning engine.
A new Select Destination Folder dialog released. Now, it offers a different ways to choose the destination folder, where your recovered data will be saved. In addition to a simple navigation through the folders tree, it allows you to:
· paste the selected path from the Address bar of your Windows Explorer,
· select the destination path from the Recently Used List,
· type a new path manually.
· Fixed a bug while getting vendor info for SATA and USB computer drives.
November 9th, 2008· Fixed a bug while getting vendor info for SATA and USB drives.
October 10th, 2008· Improved data recovery on the discs, created by AVCHD camcorders. Quick identification of M2TS files added.
· DVD authoring engine updated. Better DVD-Video compatibility.
· Built-in CD/DVD burner improved. Numerous bugfixes & hardware workarounds added
September 29th, 2008· Improved DVD data recovery on the discs, created by AVCHD camcorders. Minor bugs fixed.
July 14th, 2008· Scan UDF Disc updated. Now, you can use TOC's data to speed up the scan process on write-once discs (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD R and DVD R DL).
· Minor bugs fixed.
June 2nd, 2008· Recover DVD Video updated. Added support of DVD R DL discs created by Sony DVD camcorders.
· Split Video updated. Now, you can assign a new name and path for each new video clip (output MPEG file) in the process. This can be useful if you split a several VOB/VRO files at the same time.
April 21st, 2008· Forced scan updated. Added support of DVD-R, DVD R DL, DVD-RW and DVD RW discs, created by AVCHD camcorders.
· UDF reader updated. Improved data recovery on the discs with UDF 2.50 file system.
· German, Spanish and Italian versions of CDRoller 7.5 issued.
March 17th, 2008· New DVD-Video authoring option is released. CDRoller has now become All-In-One toolset for DVD Video Recovery. The program includes not only options for search and recovery of the lost movies and photos on the "troubled" DVDs, but it also makes a new discs that can be played back in the most DVD players. Just burn a new DVD-video disc within a couple of minutes and watch the video that seemed to be lost forever!
· Burn option is significantly updated. Added support of ISO Image file. Start Window is added into Wizard interface. Now, you have a choice: make a new DVD with recovered video, write (backup) the recovered files and folders or burn ISO Image file to a new disc.
· Small improvements in User's interface
· Minor bugs fixed
February 11th, 2008· Improved data recovery on write-once discs (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD R and DVD R DL) written by built-in Vista CD/DVD burner.
· Minor bugs fixed.
January 3rd, 2008· New Examine Sectors option released. It examines disc sectors at low level and displays the sector content in text, binary, hexadecimal or unicode mode. This option also scans all sectors of a disc (selected track or file) for particular data. Recommended
· Forced scan option updated. Added support of CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD RW discs created by Sonic DLA
· Minor bugs fixed
November 20th, 2007· Added Delete option for the files found by Scan UDF Disc, Recover DVD Video and Identify Raw ISO Data options. Now, you can simply edit a large list of found files, deleting the items that have been already recovered or are not so important now.
· Fixed a small bug with data recovery on VCD discs.
November 13th, 2007· Improved Digital Audio Extraction for CDs created by audio standalone recorders.
· New Delete option is added for Short CD/DVD Images. Now, you can simply remove non-used Short CD/DVD Image from the program window.
· German, Spanish and Italian versions of CDRoller 7 issued.
· Minor bugs fixed.
October 19th, 2007· Improved Digital Audio Extraction for CDs created by audio standalone recorders.
· New "Delete" option is added for Short CD/DVD Images. Now, you can simply remove non-used Short CD/DVD Image from the program window.
· Spanish and Italian versions of CDRoller 7 issued.
· Minor bugs fixed.
September 21st, 2007· Improved Digital Audio Extraction for CDs created by standalone recorders
· Minor bugs fixed
May 22nd, 2006· Support of Windows XP Themes released.
· New Side Bar similar to Microsoft Outlook offers an intuitive list of commands depending on the current situation (disc type, file system, data recovery problems, etc.).
· Session Selector became more easy-to-use. All available sessions are visible in the main program window. Just tick a new item in the list of available sessions to select a new one.
· Now the program window contains a built-in adviser with a basic recommendations for the beginners.