Create a boot image from a floppy boot disk

With the CD-ROM available on almost every computer nowaday, more and more computers don't have a floppy drive... What if you have some bootup floppy disks and you just want to keep a copy of them, just in case? Well, you rather not to put the disks in the storage and expecting a few years later, you'd find them and they still work just fine! If you haven't noticed, the quality of floppy disks isn't that good. You don't want to trust your floppy disks.

The solution is simple: make a copy of your floppy disk and save it as a file (an ISO image) on your computer. Then, when you need it, you can either make a new floppy disk or even a CD out of it.

If you need the information to create a bootable CD/DVD with a bootup floppy disk or a bootup ISO image, see this article. 

Requirements: Floppy drive, of course!

The following instructions are based on an image utility called MagicISO. You can choose to use a different "image" software, whichever supports this option. MagicISO is not a freeware, but a trial version will still what you need.

The Steps:

1. If you don't already have MagicISO installed, download and install it.
2. Launch the MagicISO, if you're using the trial version, click on "Try it"
3. Insert a bootup floppy disk that you want to create an image from.
4. Select "Tools" from the top menu of MagicISO, then select "Make Boot Image from Floppy Disk"
5. At the Save As dialog box, browse to the location you wish to save the image file.
6. Enter the name of the image file under "File name" (i.e. "bootimg.iso") then press "Enter"
7. The image creation progress starts to read the floppy disk and write to the image file.