Creating a Floppy Image in Windows
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:16 am
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.
[download]
In short, what you do is put the files you want to write to your image in their own directory.
That's it. Enjoy your new (free and legal) floppy disk image!
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.
[download]
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:\