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CDRoller Changelog

What's new in CDRoller 12.0.50.0

Mar 25, 2024
  • Batch Convert Video released. If you have a lot of VOB, MPG or M2TS recovered video files, you can now convert them to MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats without manually loading each one and then renaming them.
  • DVD-Video playability test released. If you have a large collection of dvd-video discs with videos, created by DVD camcorders and standalone recorders, you can now test whether these discs will be still played back on DVD players or not.
  • Scan UDF Disc updated. Added an ability to resume scan where you left (canceled) it before.
  • Lock CD/DVD drive can be now applied to the selected drive in the program window. Use this option if Windows seems to eject the troubled disc, interrupting a disc analysis, initiated by CDRoller. Usually, the Windows Explorer window opens to your CD/DVD drive, the disc is ejected and Windows dialog that says "Insert disc" appears as well.
  • NTFS reader significantly updated. Removed a limit of 65536 folders per the drive partition.
  • ReFS reader updated.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.95.20.0 (Oct 9, 2023)

  • Added support of Resilient File System (ReFS), the newest Microsoft file system. The new Scan ReFS Data option allows to find the lost (deleted) files and folders on the drives (partitions) formatted with ReFS.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.91.50.0 (Jan 9, 2023)

  • Facial recognition updated. Added ability to sort the found photos by taken date, assigned under Date tab.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added

New in CDRoller 11.90.50.0 (Dec 2, 2022)

  • Added facial recognition to Find option. This can be useful if you have a lot of photos on the older compact discs, and you want to sort them by facial recognition and then arrange into albums.
  • Simple video editor updated. Added Merge Video option. It allows to combine and convert the saved fragments into the new MPEG-4 video file, without leaving the program.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.82.50.0 (Jan 20, 2022)

  • Simple Video Editor released. You can now view the recovered video file (MPEG-2 or AVCHD) frame-by-frame and save the selected fragment of video as a new file, without leaving the program.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.81.20.0 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Simple Video Converter released. Converts the recovered MPEG-2 (*.mpg) and AVCHD (.m2ts) video files into MP4 files with support of H.264, H.265/HEVC, Libvpx-VP8, Xvid and native MPEG-4 video codecs. Integrated into the program shell. No need to use an external converter, you can now get MP4 video files without leaving CDRoller.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.80.20.0 (Nov 2, 2021)

  • Split Video updated. Added an opportunity to merge the resulted MPEG-2 video fragments into one file.
  • Added a capability to read DVD-video disc that has been finalized with incorrect TOC parameters (Track Start Address and Track Length).
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.70.10.0 (Feb 24, 2021)

  • This version introduces new features to find and sort your photos by facial recognition and taken date in the old collections of optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-ray), flash memory cards and other Windows drives as well.
  • Extended Data Recovery updated. Added ability to skip the files that were already on the recovery destination. After you have checked the Skip already recovered files box under FAT/NTFS/Ext tab in the Preferences, the program will ignore all the files already recovered from this drive. This can be useful if you recover a lot of files from the large drive.
  • ISO/Joliet reader updated. Now, if a file name contains an invalid symbol for Windows, it will be automatically replaced by underline symbol (_). This looks like an useful if your optical disc (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray) was originally recorded under non-Windows operating system.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.61.20.0 (Feb 13, 2020)

  • Added an ability to lock CD/DVD drive after CDRoller begins to analyse the inserted disc. A new check box with the same name is placed onto CDRoller - Start Window. This looks like an useful option when Windows 10 just ejects the damaged disc, interrupting a normal work of CDRoller. Usually, the Windows Explorer window opens to the CD/DVD drive, the disc is ejected and Windows dialog that says 'Insert disc' appears as well.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.60.10.0 (Jan 20, 2020)

  • This version introduces new features to keep your valuable files safe on optical discs (CD, DVD or Blu-Ray):
  • Added support of the Short CD/DVD Images for high capacity blu-ray discs : BD-R DL and BD-RE DL (Dual Layer), BD-R TL and BD-RE TL (Triple Layer), BD-R QL and BD-RE QL (Quadruple Layer), Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD) discs as well.
  • Short CD/DVD Images catalog your optical discs into the library and protect the directories on each disc from reading errors. Now, these images allow to create and use so-called spare files to protect valuable files data. Built on Reed-Solomon error-correction algorithm, spare files verify your protected files have not been damaged and fix them if necessary.
  • NTFS reader updated. Fixed a rare bug when the MFT scan stalls or even freezes.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.50.10.0 (Nov 4, 2019)

  • That is an important version for everyone who uses CDRoller for data recovery from the video cameras with internal flash memories.
  • Extended Data Recovery updated. Added support of Flip Video Pocket Cameras with internal flash memories.
  • Fixed a bug when searching for the lost video files on the flash cards with FAT file system.
  • Added Check Update into the Help menu. Using this option, you can check if your current version of CDRoller is up-to-date or a recent update is now available.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.40.40.0 (Apr 22, 2019)

  • This version introduces new features and updates to Extended Data Recovery, including an ability to use backup copies of GPT partition if the main records are unreadable, and new methods in reading the drives and cards with the damaged (corrupted) FAT32 file system.
  • - Examine sectors updated for the optical discs. The Copy sectors now allows to extract RAW (2352 bytes) sectors from CD media (CD-R, CD-RW and CD-ROM).
  • - Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.40.20.0 (Feb 18, 2019)

  • Rеlеаѕеd СD/DVD/Вlu-rау bіtmар fоr Rесоvеr Аll аnd Rесоvеr Ѕеlесtеd орtіоnѕ. Іt аllоwѕ tо ѕkір fіlеѕ аlrеаdу рrосеѕѕеd оn thе іnѕеrtеd dіѕс.
  • Аddеd аn аbіlіtу tо dіѕрlау thе dіgіtаl numbеrѕ оf thе Rеtrіеѕ аnd Fоrсе аѕ hіntѕ undеr thе dаtа rесоvеrу wіndоw.
  • Іn аddіtіоn tо НТМL rероrt, thе rесоvеrу rеѕultѕ саn bе nоw ѕаvеd іntо thе tехt fіlе аѕ wеll.
  • Numеrоuѕ іmрrоvеmеntѕ, bugfіхеѕ аnd wоrkаrоundѕ аddеd.

New in CDRoller 11.40.10.0 (Jan 9, 2019)

  • This version introduces the new options of CDRoller: Create spare files and Repair file. These options are now located in the File menu of program window. Spare files contain error-correction data based on Reed-Solomon algorithm that can be used to verify your valuable files have not been damaged and fix them if necessary. For example, if you have a valuable file on the expensive high-capacity Blu-ray disc (BD-R Quadruple Layer or Ultra HD Blu-ray), even a small damaged area can make a large backup file non-functional. A possible solution is to create spare files while your backup is still readable, keep them in the safe place or write onto new CD or DVD using Burn option of CDRoller. Further, you can recover files with the help of Recover... and Repair file options, using spare files created before.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.30.00.0 (Sep 20, 2018)

  • This version introduces new features and updates to Extended Data Recovery, including an ability to use backup copies of GPT partition if the main records are unreadable, and new methods in reading the drives and cards with the damaged (corrupted) FAT32 file system.
  • Examine sectors updated for the optical discs. The Copy sectors now allows to extract RAW (2352 bytes) sectors from CD media (CD-R, CD-RW and CD-ROM).
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.20.50.0 (May 21, 2018)

  • Тhіѕ vеrѕіоn іntrоduсеѕ nеw uрdаtеѕ tо dаtа rесоvеrу frоm орtісаl dіѕсѕ (СD/DVD/Вlu-rау):
  • Rеlеаѕеd СD/DVD/Вlu-rау bіtmар fоr Rесоvеr Аll аnd Rесоvеr Ѕеlесtеd орtіоnѕ. Іt аllоwѕ tо ѕkір fіlеѕ аlrеаdу рrосеѕѕеd оn thе іnѕеrtеd dіѕс.
  • Аddеd аn аbіlіtу tо dіѕрlау thе dіgіtаl numbеrѕ оf thе Rеtrіеѕ аnd Fоrсе аѕ hіntѕ undеr thе dаtа rесоvеrу wіndоw.
  • Іn аddіtіоn tо НТМL rероrt, thе rесоvеrу rеѕultѕ саn bе nоw ѕаvеd іntо thе tехt fіlе аѕ wеll.
  • Numеrоuѕ іmрrоvеmеntѕ, bugfіхеѕ аnd wоrkаrоundѕ аddеd.

New in CDRoller 11.20.00.0 (May 8, 2018)

  • Released CD/DVD/Blu-ray bitmap for Recover All and Recover Selected options. It allows to skip files already processed on the inserted disc.
  • Added an ability to display the digital numbers of the Retries and Force as hints under the data recovery window.
  • In addition to HTML report, the recovery results can be now saved into the text file as well.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.10.0.0 (Apr 9, 2018)

  • This version expands CDRoller's capabilities as File Manager for optical discs (CD/DVD/Blu-ray). Due to built-in ZIP viewer, you can now look into the table of contents of ZIP archive on CD without copying a large ZIP file to your computer. ZIP64 format extensions are also supported. Just select ZIP file in the program window, click the Properties option and look at the ZIP archive tab under the file properties dialog. This option can be applied to another files, created in the ZIP format, such as .ZIPX, .DOCX, .XLXS, .PPTX, .ODT, .ODS, .ODP, .JAR and .WAR files.
  • Added Append button onto UDF Records tab of the file properties. If your UDF file is fragmented, this option allows to combine the recovered fragments (extents), without applying any third-party tool.
  • Fixed a small bug when displaying the file properties via pop-up (context) menu.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 11.00.0.0 (Jan 8, 2018)

  • Added support of high capacity blu-ray discs : BD-R DL and BD-RE DL (Dual Layer, 50 GB), BD-R TL and BD-RE TL (Triple Layer, 100 GB), BD-R QL and BD-RE QL (Quadruple Layer, 128 GB), Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD) discs as well.
  • The following list of features upgraded to accomodate to the new high capacity optical discs (mentioned above): Recover All / Recover Selected, Drag-and-Drop and File Execution, Save / Resume Recovery, Scan UDF Disc, Examine Sectors / Examine File, Search of disc content, Extract To ISO Image File, View Image, File Properties.
  • UDF forced scan updated. Added support of discs created by Windows 10 internal burner. Advanced users and data recovery experts can find useful an opportunity to change (simulate) UDF partition parameters after Unknown CD option has been selected in the forced scan list. For example, if you do not know an exact name of CD/DVD mastering program that created your bad disc, but you have the good one created by the same software, you can apply Test Disc option to the good disc and get the partition parameters first. Then, you run the forced scan on the bad disc (with the Unknown CD option), type the values under UDF Scan parameters dialog and find the lost files, simulating the good disc partition.
  • Main program window with empty CD/DVD drives now appears before analysis of inserted disc, with further messages in the status bar. This looks like a proof of normal work of the program if you've inserted a disc before CDRoller and analysis of bad disc requires an additional time.
  • Extended Data Recovery updated. Examine Sectors option is now available in the pop-up (context menu) under the Start Window, for the entire disk, logical drive, or selected partition. This allows to search for particular data (content) immediately, without analysis of file system.
  • Installation procedure slightly changed. After installation, the version number will not be displayed in the Start Menu folder name. For example, you will see a simple CDRoller name instead of CDRoller 11.0. This looks like an useful for future upgrades. Also, the setup program now allows to change CDRoller's location if it's required for saving the older version.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 10.61.60.0 (Nov 19, 2017)

  • Reset Settings added to the View menu of program window. Allows to set all the settings by default.
  • Extended Data Recovery updated. Fixed an old bug when ISO CD image file was incorrectly mounted and user received the error message about unknown file system.
  • Scan files updated for searching the particular file data (content). Fixed a bug with displaying incorrect offsets after the same data (content) have been detected in the different places inside the same file.

New in CDRoller 10.61.00.0 (Aug 14, 2017)

  • Reset Settings added to the View menu of program window. Allows to set all the settings by default.
  • Extended Data Recovery updated. Fixed an old bug when ISO CD image file was incorrectly mounted and user received the error message about unknown file system.
  • Scan files updated for searching the particular file data (content). Fixed a bug with displaying incorrect offsets after the same data (content) have been detected in the different places inside the same file.

New in CDRoller 10.60.40.0 (Jul 10, 2017)

  • Added an ability to create disk image files for entire drive, logical disk or selected partition. Image file is a byte-to-byte copy (clone) of entire disk or selected partition and can be used by data recovery specialists for many purposes.
  • Added support of 4Kn disks, formatted with UDF file system.
  • Fixed a bug when a logical drive with unknown file system mistakenly matches a physical drive partition.

New in CDRoller 10.60.10.0 (May 2, 2017)

  • This version of CDRoller introduces new features and updates to Extended Data Recovery:
  • Added an ability to create disk image files for entire drive, logical disk or selected partition. Image file is a byte-to-byte copy (clone) of entire disk or selected partition and can be used by data recovery specialists for many purposes.
  • Added support of 4Kn disks, formatted with UDF file system.
  • Fixed a bug when a logical drive with unknown file system mistakenly matches a physical drive partition.

New in CDRoller 10.51.20.0 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Examine sectors updated. Added support of user-defined signatures (in the text or hexadecimal form) for finding the files data based on their signature only. Scan FAT Data updated.
  • Removed the old 32GB limit of scan area.

New in CDRoller 10.51.10.0 (Jan 30, 2017)

  • Examine sectors updated. You can now define your own signatures (in the text or hexadecimal form) for finding the files data based on their signature only. For example, if you have a special file type, you can copy a group of consecutive bytes from the file header and try to look for all files of the same type based on this pattern (file header). This can be considered as an addition to Identify Raw ISO Data and Scan FAT Data options. And, of course, can be used for engineering purposes as well.
  • Scan FAT Data updated. Removed the old 32GB limit of scan area. This option can be used for deep scan on the drive / disc with the damaged (undefined) file system.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 10.50.10.0 (Nov 1, 2016)

  • Added support of Microsoft Virtual Disk Images in VHD and VHDX formats (*.vhd, *.vhdx files). Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing types.
  • Examine sectors updated. Added support of 2TB+ drives (4Kn and 512e drives).
  • NTFS reader updated for compatibility with new 4Kn and 512e drives.
  • Fixed an old bug when some dialogs did not appear in the Windows taskbar.
  • UDF reader updated. Added the ability to recover so-called named streams into separate files with the help of Recover All and Recover Selected options. You can now choose to receive a single file with Alternate Data Streams on NTFS formatted drive, or extract each stream into separate file.
  • Scan files updated. Now, it allows to seach of file content in the created Short CD/DVD Image as well.

New in CDRoller 10.40.70.0 (Sep 22, 2016)

  • Added support of disk ISO, EWF and DD image files. Released files scanning for particular data (content) with support of Perl-like regular expressions. Examine Sectors option updated.

New in CDRoller 10.40.10.0 (May 3, 2016)

  • This version of CDRoller introduces new features to all users who examine disk data at low level. For example, forensic investigators can find useful:
  • Support of disk image files: files recorded in Expert Witness Compression Format (*.E01, *.L01, *.S01), Linux / Unix "Disk Dump" (*.dd) files and ISO image files (*.iso) as well
  • Displaying Evidence Item Information in the Properties dialog for EWF image file
  • Files scanning for particular data (content), regardless of the file names and/or extensions. With support of Perl-like regular expressions facility (PCRE library) for creating match patterns
  • Updated Examine Sectors option with a new Copy Sectors capability

New in CDRoller 10.30.10.0 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Extended Data Recovery significantly updated. Added support of popular Linux Ext2 and Ext3 file systems
  • Examine Sectors updated. Now, you can extract the found data into an external (.dat) file not only for optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-ray), but also for another Windows drives (hard disks, flash drives and cards), etc.), selected for Extended Data Recovery. Added an ability to generate a report as well
  • Added expected support of disks (drives) with GPT partitions. The Start Window for Extended Data Recovery updated. The detected physical drives are now displayed by default
  • Fault-tolerant FAT reader improved. Fixed an old bug while reading the disks (drives, cards) with incorrect FAT file system
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added

New in CDRoller 10.21.20 (Sep 22, 2015)

  • Examine Sectors significantly updated. Added the ability to extract the found data into an external (.dat) file. This is a new option of CDRoller for recovering the lost data when using the files signatures only.
  • Tests under Windows 10 successfully completed.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 10.2.20 (May 13, 2015)

  • Support of all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats: Canon (*.cr2, *.crw), Kodak (*.dcr), Minolta (*.mrw), Nikon (*.nef), Olympus (*.orf), Pentax (*.pef), Fuji (*.raf), Leica (*.raw), Sony (*.srf) and Sigma (*.x3f).
  • Display of thumbnail previews.
  • Support of image EXIF metadata, including GPS fields. Displays the location on geo map with GPS latitude and longitude coordinates, where selected picture was taken.
  • Histogram display (RGB and Gray Scale).
  • Batch processing to convert large or small collections of images. Support of image resizing with 11 quality filters, including Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, FastLinear, Bilinear and Bicubic.
  • View with support of "to-fit", "100% size" or "full screen".
  • Batch convert of selected images into Adobe PDF or PostScript (PS) file.
  • Prints selected images, including print preview support.
  • "Save As" with a convert into a wide set of graphic formats.

New in CDRoller 10.1.0.0 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • Examine Sectors significantly updated. Added an opportunity to examine the sectors data on hard disks, flash drives and other types of Windows disks/drives, selected for Extended Data Recovery.
  • Added expected support of UDF file system for Extended Data Recovery. Now, you can recover UDF files not only from optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) but also from another Windows drives, formatted with UDF file system.
  • NTFS reader updated. Added an opportunity to recover the compressed NTFS files. Released a deep scan of unused clusters. That can help to locate the files based only on file signatures, ignoring NTFS records.
  • Scan FAT Data updated. Added a new option to recognize MP3 files. This can be useful if you're looking for the lost audio files in the data storage, built in your voice recorder.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 10.00.0 (May 12, 2014)

  • Released a direct access to raw disk data using a special (kernel-mode) driver. This enables you to bypass the restrictions, imposed by Windows 7, 8 and Vista operating systems under standard user account. Unlike some data recovery programs, CDRoller 10 does not request administrator privileges for work with Windows drives (hard disks, flash and floppy drives, etc.) under restricted (non-administrative) account. That means you never get User Account Control (UAC) popup when you start CDRoller after installation.
  • UDF data recovery updated. Added the ability to separately recover each fragment (extent) of UDF file, displayed under UDF Records tab in the file Properties dialog. This can be useful, for instance, if a large UDF video file is fragmented and some damaged extents slow the recovery process.
  • Recover All / Recover Selected updated. Now, data recovery report lists all bad (unreadable) sectors detected for each file.
  • Extract To ISO Image File significantly updated. You can now create ISO image (*.iso) file not only from the entire disc (session, drive, partition) but also from the separate (selected) files and folders. As always, this option is available for optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) and another types of Windows drives (flash drives, Hard Disk Drives, etc.).
  • Extended Data Recovery improved:
  • Added an opportunity to access to the list of physical drives and their partitions. This may be useful if Windows does not display a drive as a logical one (volume) with a separate letter, but you still need to access to the lost data.
  • ExFAT reader significantly updated. In addition to the recovery of files data, CDRoller now restores the lost (deleted or quick re-formatted) sub-folders on the disks (drives) with exFAT file system.
  • Program Preferences updated. Added a new FAT & NTFS tab with optional settings for Extended Data Recovery.
  • Removed the 24-bit limit of cluster address.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 9.70.70.1 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • Fixed bug in NTFS reader

New in CDRoller 9.70.10 (Sep 23, 2013)

  • Extended Data Recovery significantly updated. Added support of exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table), a new Microsoft 64-bit file system optimized for flash drives.
  • Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 9.60.30 (Jul 20, 2013)

  • The list of drives for data recovery is expanded. Added support of hard disks, ssd drives and floppy disks.

New in CDRoller 9.60.10 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • This is a new important version of CDRoller with a lot of improvements and new functionality. Since we released a support of Hard Disk Drives (HDD), Solid-State Drives (SSD), floppy disks, etc., Flash Data Recovery was renamed to Extended Data Recovery. Now, while installing CDRoller, you have a choice: use the program for data recovery from optical (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray) discs only, or besides that, also recover the lost files from another types of Windows drives/disks.
  • NTFS and FAT readers significantly updated. Added numerous bugfixes and important improvements into the search of deleted files (NTFS and FAT Undelete).

New in CDRoller 9.51.10 (Apr 9, 2013)

  • Tests under Windows 8 Professional successfully completed.
  • Russian version of CDRoller 9 issued.
  • Numerous bugfixes and workarounds added.

New in CDRoller 9.50 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Flash Data Recovery significantly updated. Added expected support of NTFS file system. It's also useful if you intend to find the deleted files on external hard disk drives.
  • Examine Sectors updated. If you use CDRoller for engineering purposes, you will find useful to add hexadecimal (HEX) strings for search of the required data.
  • Forced scan updated. Added support of DVD-RWs created by Panasonic AVCHD camcorders.
  • Minor bugs fixed.

New in CDRoller 9.40.10 (May 7, 2012)

  • Scan UDF Disc updated. Now, CDRoller tries to restore an original file tree from each foundfolder on UDF disc. The plain list of found objects (files and folders) can be also displayed for detailed analysis.
  • Fixed the bug when reading UDF blu-ray discs created by Windows 7. If you use the Windows 7 built-in burner to backup a valuable data, this is definitely a good reason to upgrade CDRoller to the latest version right now.
  • Forced scan updated. Added support of DVDs and Blu-ray discs created by Windows 7 UDF burner.
  • Recover DVD Video updated. Fixed bug while identifying the large video data (4 GB+).

New in CDRoller 9.30.10 (Jan 17, 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.

New in CDRoller 9.20.00 (Oct 17, 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.

New in CDRoller 9.10.00 (May 10, 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.

New in CDRoller 9.00 (Feb 1, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.90 (Oct 1, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.81.50 (May 17, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.80.50 (May 3, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.80.0 (Apr 9, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.80 (Apr 9, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.70 (Jan 4, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.61 (Nov 11, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.60 (Sep 28, 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.

New in CDRoller 8.50.50 (May 11, 2009)

  • Introduces 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.

New in CDRoller 8.0 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • Added 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.

New in CDRoller 7.70.91 (Nov 9, 2008)

  • Fixed a bug while getting vendor info for SATA and USB drives.

New in CDRoller 7.70 (Oct 10, 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

New in CDRoller 7.61.70 (Sep 29, 2008)

  • Improved DVD data recovery on the discs, created by AVCHD camcorders. Minor bugs fixed.

New in CDRoller 7.61 (Jul 14, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.60 (Jun 2, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.51 (Apr 21, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.50 (Mar 17, 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

New in CDRoller 7.21.0.0 (Feb 11, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.20 (Jan 3, 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

New in CDRoller 7.11 (Nov 20, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.10.1 (Nov 13, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.10 (Oct 19, 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.

New in CDRoller 7.00.50 (Sep 21, 2007)

  • Improved Digital Audio Extraction for CDs created by standalone recorders
  • Minor bugs fixed

New in CDRoller 6.3.0 (May 22, 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.