Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your FD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert FD to another file type
To convert FD firmware to another format, you need Phoenix WinPhlash or other System software.
Convert a file to FD
To convert other file formats to the "Firmware Update File" file type, you need software like Phoenix WinPhlash or a similar tool.
About FD files
The .FD file format primarily serves two distinct purposes: it is either a motherboard BIOS or UEFI firmware image used for low-level system updates, or a FastFile archive used by the Call of Duty game series to store compressed game assets. To flash or read firmware .FD files, users rely on manufacturer-specific utilities like Phoenix WinPhlash or tools from TianoCore. For game files, community modding tools like Greyhound are required to extract the internal contents. Users typically need to convert or extract these files to access underlying 3D models and textures, or to decompile firmware for security analysis. The main disadvantage of the .FD format is that it is highly proprietary and lacks native support in operating systems. Firmware files are extremely hardware-specific, and an incorrect edit or flash can permanently brick a motherboard. Game FastFiles are heavily encrypted and compressed, requiring specialized unpacking algorithms rather than standard file managers. When extracting game assets, the best target formats are OBJ or FBX for 3D meshes, and DDS or PNG for textures. Firmware files are typically dumped to raw BIN or ROM formats for hexadecimal analysis. Standard online converters completely fail to process .FD files because they are complex binary containers, not standard documents or images. Often, only the original software or specialized community tools can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert FD file to EF, ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2, RAW or VBOX, you can use Phoenix WinPhlash or similar software from the "BIOS/UEFI Firmware Image" 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 FD, try Phoenix WinPhlash or another comparable tool in the "BIOS/UEFI Firmware Image" category.
The FD 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 FD converter.