The Alpha 4.3.4 is available for download from (
URL path here)
The Latest Alpha version of 4.3.4 contains support for the following:
[tested]
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Toshiba RD-XS32, 50, 52, 34, 54, 35, 55, 34SB, 34SJ
Philips 3575 and 3576
Magnavox 2160 and 513
RCA DRC8030
Pioneer 510, 520, 530, 533, 540, 550, 560, LX61, LX70
Panasonic E500H, EH50, EH55, EH75V, EH57, EH59, EH69, BS750, BS780, BS785
[via Feedback]
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Pio 555, Sony 680, 870 all identify as Pio 550/560 models, recordings were recovered
[theorectical scope of coverage]
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(2003) PATA E80H E100H
(2004) PATA E85H E95H E500H
(2005) PATA EH50 EH60
(2006) PATA EH55 EH75
(2007) PATA EH57 EH67
(2008) SATA EH58 EH68
(2009) SATA EH49 EH59 EH69
(2010) SATA BS750
(2011) SATA BS780 BS785
If you have any questions about this release please submit the questions to this thread and I'll try to answer as best I can.
The author will be unavailable following this release for several weeks.
No new recorder support is anticipated for some time.
(I am not the author, I am a Professional licensed user that tests alpha releases.)
Trial usage will list recordings it understands how to copy from the DVR HDD to the PC, but full functionality requires an up to date Professional License.
This is Alpha 4.3.4 an
IsoBuster 4.0 license is current.
IsoBuster does not [mount] or [write] to the recorder hard drive while it is attached to a PC. The most reliable method of attaching a PATA or SATA drive to a PC is using a USB bridge or USB hard drive dock of some kind. This eliminates any potential Master/Slave or Cable Select conflicts.
The following warnings should be obvious:
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Do not Allow Windows to "Initialize" the recorder hard drive]
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Do not open the recorder hard drive with a Hex Editor]
The reasons and proof are varied but doing either "risks" destroying the ability for the recorder hard drive or your recorder being normally used after extracting recordings.
Recorders and their drives share resources in a one to one relationship, anything that writes to a recorder hard drive while it is attached to a PC..
"Strongly" risks divorcing or wrecking that relationship. It is best not to tempt fate. Recordings are not the only thing on many recorder hard drives, firmware used by the recorder CPU is often stored there too, writing anywhere on a recorder hard drive may damage the operating system on the recorder. Not all of the firmware is restored by reformatting a drive in the recorder, parts are installed (one time) at the factory and cannot be recovered.
(Cloning) is also not a 100 percent assured solution, some recorders "seem" to hash the unique guid of the hard drive, or use titles on the hard drive to make a unique hash stored in nvram. A clone drive very often will not work if substituted, and can request a reformat (
don't do it!) recreating the hash for a new cloned drive will "break" the relationship with the former drive.. swapping it back in.. it will not work and those recordings will be orphaned to that drive.
Hex Editors (absolutely)
are not universally "safe".