On the other hand, I'd don't see the point of archiving floppy images (except perhaps for nostalgic reasons) since floppy disks themselves are quickly becoming history. Just archive the floppy image once you've copied to it. Most (all?) virtualization tools will allow you to use an image as a virtual floppy disk. The only limitation compared to ISO images was that you could not mount a DFI image.Īs suggested by David Schmitt, you could always do it via a virtual machine.
It was a true sector-based copy and could successfully read passed bad sectors and even physical damage.
DFI (Disk Factory Image) image file of a floppy disk, or you could directly copy disk-to-disk. Shout if you think need it and I'll see what I can do.ĭiskFactory was a floppy disk imaging utility which created a. I still have an installer for v3, but I don't know if it's legal to post for download. Download links lead you round in circles, and the domain name now tries to sell you CDs and DVDs. Place a piece of tape over the left-side hole, as in the one without the write protect switch on it, then place in the drive and format using the command above and you’ve got yourself a 720k formatted disk: What possible use could this be to anyone For vintage computer enthusiasts, this is useful info. It was a shareware program written by Mark McGinty, but it unfortunately seems to have disappeared from the net. How to read a Floppy diskIf you have old floppy disk laying around, you can actually read them and transfer the files off of them with a simple USB disk read. I've used DiskFactor圓2 since the days of Windows 95/NT4.
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