Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GBI file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GBI to another file type
To convert GBI disk images to another format, you need gBurner or other Disk Image software.
Convert a file to GBI
To convert other file formats to the "gBurner Disk Image File" file type, you need software like gBurner or a similar tool.
About GBI files
A .GBI file is primarily a gBurner Image, a proprietary compressed disk image format created by gBurner. It is typically used to store exact, bootable backup copies of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. A secondary, less common use case is as a compressed game archive for retro gaming platforms like Gamebase. While powerful for backups, the .GBI format suffers from major accessibility disadvantages. Because it is a closed-source, proprietary format developed by Power Software Ltd., standard operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux cannot natively mount or read these files. Users are completely locked into downloading and installing specific third-party virtual drive software, which can be annoying, unsupported on mobile devices, or blocked by corporate IT policies. To regain access to your data, it is highly recommended to convert the .GBI file to a standard ISO file or extract its contents to a ZIP archive. Converting to ISO ensures that the disk image can be natively mounted on any modern operating system without losing the original folder structure or bootable data. Because the compression and optional encryption algorithms of the .GBI format are kept secret, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GBI file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GBI file to ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2, RAW, VBOX or OVA, you can use gBurner or similar software from the "Compressed Disk Image Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to GBI, try gBurner or another comparable tool in the "Compressed Disk Image Archive" category.
The GBI 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 GBI converter.