FLG Converter

Extract text from FLG files

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How to extract text from your FLG file

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

Convert FLG to another file type

To convert your FLG file to another format, you need HP Recovery Manager or other System software.

Convert a file to FLG

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Flag" file type, you need software like HP Recovery Manager or a similar tool.

About FLG files

The .FLG extension is a classic example of a "polysemic" filename - used by completely different software to mean "Flag" or "marker." The most common variation you will encounter is a system configuration file generated by HP (Hewlett-Packard) Recovery Manager. These are often zero-byte or small text files (e.g., preload.flg, burn.flg) acting as digital "sticky notes" to tell the system that a recovery partition exists or a process is complete.

The Problem: Because they are often just indicators, HP .FLG files cannot be "opened" or converted into meaningful content like PDFs or Images - attempting to do so may actually break your system's recovery partition. However, .FLG is also used by games like Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) to store team emblems (bitmaps) and by Dark Eden as renamed ZIP archives. In these gaming contexts, the files are proprietary containers that standard image viewers cannot render.

The Solution:

For HP Files: Do not convert. Verify the file path (usually D:\ or C:\system.sav).
For PES/Games: Convert these proprietary bitmaps to standard PNG or JPG files to view and edit team logos.
For Dark Eden: These are often disguised archives. You can verify this by renaming the extension to ZIP and attempting to extract the contents with 7-Zip to access the game data inside.

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

Users also converted FIG, PDF, ZIP, PET, ELF and RUN files.

FAQ

If you want to convert FLG file to ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2, RAW, VBOX or OVA, you can use HP Recovery Manager or similar software from the "System Status Marker" 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 FLG, try HP Recovery Manager or another comparable tool in the "System Status Marker" category.

The FLG 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 FLG converter.