DON Converter

Extract text from Donation or script files (DON)


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

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

Convert DON to another file type

To convert DON Files to another format, you need HP System Software Manager or other Data software.

Convert a file to DON

To convert other file formats to the "Data Submission Archive / Script" file type, you need software like HP System Software Manager or a similar tool.


About DON files

A .DON file serves two entirely different specialized purposes. Most commonly, it is an IRAS Donation Submission file used by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) to process bulk tax-deductible donation records from approved institutions. Under the hood, this is essentially a compressed archive. Alternatively, a .DON file functions as an installation script used by the HP System Software Manager during automated system restores and driver deployments. Both formats carry significant usability disadvantages. The IRAS version is a renamed proprietary file; standard operating systems and web browsers cannot natively recognize or open it, leaving users unable to easily review their own submitted tax data. The HP script is highly specialized and lacks straightforward formatting, making it confusing to read outside of its native recovery environment. For the IRAS file, the most practical conversion target is a standard ZIP archive, which allows users to extract the internal data (often XML or CSV) without losing quality. For the HP variant, a simple TXT conversion is optimal for inspecting the script's raw code. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because it relies on either closed government validation logic or proprietary hardware recovery environments. Often, only the original IRAS portal or HP diagnostic tools can properly read or export the data. Standard online converters fail to process it because they do not recognize the obscure .DON extension and immediately reject the upload. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible using convert.guru. If our analysis detects the supported underlying ZIP structure or embedded plain text, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert DON file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use HP System Software Manager or similar software from the "Tax Submission or System Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to DON, try HP System Software Manager or another comparable tool in the "Tax Submission or System Script" category.



The DON 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 DON converter.