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You probably know about file systems on hard drives. If you have windows XP, your file system is probably NTFS or FAT32. Now if you insert a CD in your cd drive and select this drive, in the extra info part of the window, you will probably see “file system : CDFS or ISO”
But did you know a file system ONLY governs how the file is accessed? In other words the file you see in explorer is but an image, a path leading to the actual file. Different operating systems use different file systems. This is why a CD burned on MAC might not run on a PC.
Download Nero and burn your Cd
I know this seems weird but even if you cannot understand all this technical gibberish you’ll get my point in a moment. Now, did you know programs such as Nero burn in multiple (2 or 3) file systems simultaneously? Windows only sees one of them, namely the ISO or CDFS. Now suppose the CDFS or ISO part of a cd is scratched, and you’re with Windows. Trapped?? Not necessarily. Isobuster from Smart projects communicates directly with your drive (bypassing any operating system) and reads most file systems. Your files remain accessible, provided the other FSS are not damaged too.
Download Isobuster and never bust away your ‘damaged’ cds
Furthermore, there are many cases where we burnt a disc with Nero and before the disc was closed and usable, there was a power failure. If we try to open this cd afterwards we would probably only get an error message or worse, nothing. But guess what, Isobuster can read those to-be-thrown-away cds, and all the files that were burnt before the power failure will be there!
Invisible Cds, My new jutsu involving Isobuster
If you burn a cd Using nero, multisession, mode iso9660+joliet and afterwards use Windows XP’s integrated burner to complete the multisession, the result will simply be an hybrid unstable disc unreadable under windows (didnt have the opportunity to test other OS though… 
anyway Windows just wont see the data on the disc. and you can guess the solution to this:) of course, its Isobuster! ) And It DOES work, All the files from the first session will be readable (on my tests though the second sessions (burned with windows integrated utility) often (3 times out of 5) got crushed up….
Warning: Seing all that Isobuster can do, I couldn’t resist the urge of trying to fool this program. well, I have to admit it, even Kyushiro-sama has failed this time. Actually you can’t win this battle. Magic folders, Hidden files, no-folders, Blank disk simulation, nothing works on that, it will at least get to see the data anyway. So you might want to be cautious with what you do with this program, (especially to whom you give this program) I mean it can do anything related with reading discs apart from reviving cds scratched to death.
nice post Kyushiro. Your jutsu(technique) rocks
thumbs up
gonna have to download that isobuster and try it out.
hey dude, I’ve mod the article, pushed some nice pics inside. Gotta have to tell me how you find it?
Don’t forget to digg, del.icio.used….bookmark it for max exposure : I think that this truely deserves a place
LOL pourquoi personne vient ici?? C un post super pourtant! lol
Elo Kyushiro Kun ..
Sa faisait un peu temps que l’on ne t’endais pas..
Coooool ce nouveau poste ..
Moi aussi je vais telecharger Isobuster ..
J’ai une petite idee sur ce que J J Hans va essayer de recover ..
Pensez mon cher Kyushiro Kun
Je suis sure que tu trouvera 
Bon il faut que je vous quitte maintenant ..
A plus
interessant…
plitot lire blog ki suivre lecture(la plupart) lol…
cpv kone plis zaffaire interresant
@ Yashvin
Ohhhhh, my old post from such a long long time ago!!
reminds of the old time, huh hans? 
:). hm, yeah, little precision, linux (Knoppix i mean…) cant see anything on the HU-disks (Hybrid Unstable disks as i call them.) Isobuster being non-open source, importation to linux would seem complicated, unless wine can run it. (hard to test on a live cd, plus, im not ready for a total shift to linux-world 
=D thanks for this precious little info kyu. yeah getting such hacks on Linux might sound difficult then :sweat: hey infact there are other alternatives to wine for Linux. Have you heard of any? I think with Xandros, you’ve got a different emulator that can run lots of popular softs but that’s a paid feature
hey why the old time? don’t forget we’ve got another project currently at hand
and I’m waiting when would you upload that stuff once for it!!!!
btw, forgot to tell ya, i know how you did the rotating posts. (or at least i know how I would have done this…) Check kyusphere. on the right sidebar you will see a random posts entry. actually we kept this one general, but if we wanted, we could have specified categories within which the rotating posts would be taken. so i would set up a category guest_author for example, and then let the plugin display 3 random posts from this category……. alors?
@ leo
something on this term, I’ll be blogging it as usual lol…but nice guess…. btw do you find something like this efficient or would you be implementing it yourself?
implementing it myself? You mean manually fetch random posts from the category in the database, then echo the titles in the sidebar? could be fun to try make it work, but i would not be using that online
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