Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DSK file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DSK to another file type
To convert your DSK file to another format, you need WinImage or other Disk Image software.
Convert a file to DSK
To convert other file formats to the "Floppy Disk Image" file type, you need software like WinImage or a similar tool.
About DSK files
A .DSK file is most commonly a Disk Image, representing a sector-by-sector copy of a storage drive, often used for archiving floppy disks from legacy systems like the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, and MSX. While invaluable for retro gaming and preservation, these files present significant access challenges: they are essentially "locked boxes" that modern operating systems (Windows, macOS) cannot mount natively. Users often face "corrupt file" errors because .DSK is an ambiguous extension; it might be a raw binary dump, a headered emulator file, or even a strictly text-based Delphi project setting file. To make the data usable, you must typically convert or extract the contents. For archiving and mounting on modern PC tools, converting raw disk images to ISO or IMG is the best solution. For retro enthusiasts, the goal is often verifying integrity or converting between raw and emulator-specific formats (like .HFE for hardware emulators).
Convert.Guru analyzes your DSK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DSK file to IMG, ISO, VMDK, DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB or GDB, you can use WinImage or similar software from the "Legacy Disk Image Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to DSK, try WinImage or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Disk Image Storage" category.
The DSK Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our DSK converter.