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I have some old games and softwares on 3.5" floppies that are worth archiving. Since floppies demagnetize themselves with time I would like to "clone" them to another medium before it's too late.
Something like an ISO but for floppies would be great. I just want to mount the file to a virtual floppy (either in a regular environment or in visualization).
Is there something like this? I use Windows 8 64-bit (but have access to all Windows since 3.11 in visualization).
Seems good. Just a question, how do you use floppies images created with WinImage? – AlexV – 2013-01-31T14:44:31.493
2http://vfd.sourceforge.net/ is a great virtual flopy drive emulator. Also, most virtual machines hosts (vmware, hyper-v, virtualbox) can mount virtual floppy images. – Keltari – 2013-01-31T14:46:52.200
Winimage works great and there is plenty of info in their Help and KB areas. – Dave M – 2013-01-31T14:47:19.397
@AlexV: FileDisk should be included in the WinImage package.
– Karan – 2013-02-01T01:13:02.133@Keltari I'm trying Winimage now and when I save my floppy image I ghave the following formats: Compressed Image file (.imz), Image file (.ima) & Virtual floppy Image (*.vfd, *.flp). Which one is the universal one (and that would work with Virtualbox too). Thnaks! – AlexV – 2013-02-01T01:47:58.337
VirtualBox supports .img, .ima, .dsk, and .vfd – Keltari – 2013-02-01T02:04:14.430