Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your USB file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert USB to another file type
To convert USB files to another format, you need Teledyne LeCroy or other Data software.
Convert a file to USB
To convert other file formats to the "Trace and Boot Image" file type, you need software like Teledyne LeCroy or a similar tool.
About USB files
The .usb file extension serves multiple disparate technical purposes, most notably as a USB protocol analyzer trace generated by Teledyne LeCroy equipment used by engineers to debug hardware traffic. Additionally, .usb files act as bootable operating system images for platforms like Oracle Solaris and FreeNAS, as SQLite databases for KARO cash register systems, and as Intel HEX firmware updates for ALI Corp satellite receivers or Segger J-Flash. The primary disadvantage of the .usb format is its severe fragmentation. Because completely unrelated software tools share the exact same extension, users frequently struggle to identify the file origin. Proprietary LeCroy traces require expensive, highly specialized software to read. Bootable .usb files confuse systems that expect standard ISO or IMG formats, and embedded cash register databases trap data behind a generic extension. Converting a .usb file depends entirely on its underlying data type. Protocol traces can sometimes be exported to CSV or TXT for parsing, while bootable images are often directly renamed to IMG for virtual machine software like Oracle VM VirtualBox. Firmware files are generally compiled into BIN or HEX. Standard online converters completely fail to process these fragmented, proprietary, and embedded formats. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like SQLite, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your USB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert USB file to ISO, MBR or GPT, you can use Teledyne LeCroy or similar software from the "Firmware, Traces & Boot Images" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to USB, try Teledyne LeCroy or another comparable tool in the "Firmware, Traces & Boot Images" category.
The USB 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 USB converter.