Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HFS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HFS to another file type
To convert your HFS file to another format, you need HFSExplorer or other Disk Image software.
Convert a file to HFS
To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Filesystem Image" file type, you need software like HFSExplorer or a similar tool.
About HFS files
The .HFS filename extension primarily represents a Macintosh HFS Disk Image, a digital replica of a storage drive formatted with Apple's legacy Hierarchical File System (Mac OS Standard) or HFS+ (Mac OS Extended). These files act like virtual hard drives, containing folders and files from older Macintosh computers, but they are incompatible with Windows by default. Attempting to open them on a PC usually results in an "unknown file format" error or a prompt to format the disk (which would destroy the data). A secondary, unrelated use of the extension is as a Game Data Archive for titles like Vindictus (published by Nexon), where it serves as a proprietary container for 3D models and textures. These game files are often encrypted or hashed, making them inaccessible without specific unpacking tools. For Mac disk images, the best conversion workflow is transforming them into a standard ISO or DMG for modern compatibility, or extracting the contents directly to a ZIP archive.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HFS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HFS file to NTFS, ZFS, ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2 or RAW, you can use HFSExplorer or similar software from the "Macintosh Disk 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 HFS, try HFSExplorer or another comparable tool in the "Macintosh Disk Image" category.
The HFS 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 HFS converter.