Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NCO file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NCO to another file type
To convert your NCO file to another format, you need Nero BackItUp or other Backup software.
Convert a file to NCO
To convert other file formats to the "Disk Archive" file type, you need software like Nero BackItUp or a similar tool.
About NCO files
The .NCO file extension identifies a compressed backup archive created by Nero BackItUp, a popular data protection tool from Nero AG. These files are typically generated when users schedule automated backups of their important documents, photos, and system files to external drives or optical media. While effective for storage, the .NCO format presents significant access challenges: it is a proprietary wrapper that often requires paid or legacy versions of Nero software to restore data formally. Users frequently discover these files on old hard drives or DVDs and find themselves unable to access the content without purchasing the original software. However, the underlying architecture of an .NCO file is technically identical to standard ZIP compression. This means the most practical "conversion" is often renaming the file to ZIP, allowing immediate access via Windows Explorer or 7-Zip. For long-term archiving and broader compatibility, converting or extracting these archives into standard ZIP or 7Z formats, or restoring the individual files (like JPG or DOCX) contained within, is highly recommended to eliminate software dependency.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NCO file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NCO file to BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR or ISO, you can use Nero BackItUp or similar software from the "Compressed Backup Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to NCO, try Nero BackItUp or another comparable tool in the "Compressed Backup Archive" category.
The NCO 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 NCO converter.