Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BCD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BCD to another file type
To convert BCD Boot files to another format, you need Microsoft Windows or other System software.
Convert a file to BCD
To convert other file formats to the "System Boot Configuration Database" file type, you need software like Microsoft Windows or a similar tool.
About BCD files
A .BCD file most commonly acts as a Windows Boot Configuration Data file, functioning as a system database that stores boot-time configuration parameters used by the Windows Boot Manager. In other workflows, it serves as a proprietary layout file for NCH Business Card Designer, an XML-based Conceptual Data Model backup by SAP PowerDesigner, or a database dump in Valentina DB. The main disadvantage of the Windows BCD file is that it is a binary registry hive, making it completely unreadable in standard text editors. Users dealing with NCH business cards face severe vendor lock-in, unable to send their designs to commercial printers without specific software. For layout sharing, we highly recommend converting business card BCD files to PDF, PNG, or JPG. For system diagnostics, boot data should be parsed to TXT. Because this file format operates as a strict system database or a closed layout file, it is extremely difficult to open or convert. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. Standard online converters fail to process these files entirely. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format - such as Microsoft Compound objects or raw XML - viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BCD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BCD file to ASCII, DWG, DXF, DGN, RVT, RFA, SKP, 3DM, STEP, IGES, SAT or X_T, you can use Microsoft Windows or similar software from the "Boot Configuration Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SLDASM, DGN, PRT, IAM, X_B, CATPRODUCT, SLDPRT, RVT, ASM, DWG, CATPART or DXF files to BCD, try Microsoft Windows or another comparable tool in the "Boot Configuration Data Storage" category.
The BCD 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 BCD converter.