Creating a Floppy Image in Windows

[Kailey]

It's not too often anymore that we need a floppy drive image created, but there are times (such as when accessing a server through iLO) when it's handy to have a virtual floppy drive.

There are a lot of shareware and commercial programs out there that will create a .img file from other files on your file system, but I had a hard time finding a free floppy image creation package. BFI (Build Floppy Image), thank goodness, still is around. It's a very easy-to-use floppy image creation command line tool that is fully free.

It's old, and it's unsupported, but it works.
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In short, what you do is put the files you want to write to your image in their own directory.

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bfi -f=c:\temp\floppy.img a:\

That's it. Enjoy your new (free and legal) floppy disk image!