SDI Converter

Extract text from SDI files


Drop or upload your .SDI file
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How to extract text from your SDI file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SDI file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert SDI to another file type

To convert your SDI file to another format, you need Microsoft Windows or other Disk Image software.

  • SDI to IP
  • SDI to TDI
  • SDI to ISO
  • SDI to IMG
  • SDI to DMG
  • SDI to VHD
  • SDI to VMDK
  • SDI to VDI
  • SDI to HDD
  • SDI to QCOW
  • SDI to QCOW2
  • SDI to RAW

Convert a file to SDI

To convert other file formats to the "Bootable RAM Disk" file type, you need software like Microsoft Windows or a similar tool.

  • VFD to SDI
  • DMG to SDI
  • OVA to SDI
  • IMA to SDI
  • VBOX to SDI
  • ADF to SDI
  • PVS to SDI
  • VHD to SDI
  • OVF to SDI
  • ISO to SDI
  • DSK to SDI
  • IMG to SDI

About SDI files

The .sdi extension is shared by two completely different file formats, often causing confusion.

  1. Microsoft System Deployment Image (Primary): This is a proprietary disk image format used by Microsoft Windows for booting operating systems directly from RAM (RAM booting) or network deployment (PXE). Unlike standard ISO or VHD files, an SDI file typically contains a Boot BLOB, a Load BLOB, and a Part BLOB, making it difficult to mount or edit without specific command-line tools like sdimgr.exe. Users often struggle to open these in modern virtualization software like VMware or VirtualBox, leading to a need to convert them to standard ISO or IMG formats for broader compatibility.
  2. MySQL Serialized Dictionary Information (Secondary): Introduced in MySQL 8.0, these are text-based files containing database table metadata formatted as JSON. They exist to provide a backup of the table schema even if the main .IBD files are corrupted. The 'friction' here is that the .sdi extension prevents users from realizing they can simply open these with any text editor. Users often convert these to JSON (by renaming) or PDF for schema documentation.

Convert.Guru analyzes your SDI file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted CAB, PDF, JPG, WMP, LOG, IP and TDI files.



The SDI 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 SDI converter.