Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PQZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PQZ to another file type
To convert your PQZ file to another format, you need PartQuest or other Data software.
Convert a file to PQZ
To convert other file formats to the "Monitoring Data / Backup Archive" file type, you need software like PartQuest or a similar tool.
About PQZ files
The .PQZ file extension represents a collision between three distinct industries: legacy system backups, electrical engineering, and PCB design.
Legacy Backups: Historically, .PQZ files were compressed drive images created by PowerQuest Drive Image (later acquired by Symantec). These are often segments of a larger PQI backup set. Users typically encounter friction here because the software is obsolete; restoring these requires a virtual machine running legacy Norton Ghost or Drive Image 7.
PCB Design: In modern workflows, .PQZ files are component packages generated by Siemens PartQuest for the Xpedition and PADS design suites. These contain schematic symbols and footprints. Crucially, these are standard ZIP archives. Users often struggle to import them directly if the software version is mismatched, but the contents can be manually retrieved by renaming the file.
Power Monitoring: For utility engineers, .PQZ contains power quality monitoring data from analyzers used by companies like Ergon Energy. These are proprietary binary files that lock data away from standard spreadsheet tools.
Conversion Strategies:
For PCB/Siemens: Rename the extension from .PQZ to ZIP and extract contents to access EDX or XML data.
For Backups: Convert to VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) if possible, or use a legacy restore environment to extract files.
For Power Data: Use the proprietary PQDA (Power Quality Data Analyzer) software to export logs to CSV or XLSX for analysis in Excel.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PQZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PQZ file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use PartQuest or similar software from the "Monitoring Data & Disk Images" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to PQZ, try PartQuest or another comparable tool in the "Monitoring Data & Disk Images" category.
The PQZ 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 PQZ converter.