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.
In short, what you do is put the files you want to write to your image in their own directory.
Here's an example of its usage. Say I want to create a floppy image file at c:\temp\myfloppy.img, containing all of the files in c:\temp\floppyfiles. The command I'd use to do this is:
bfi -f=c:\temp\myfloppy.img c:\temp\floppyfiles
That's it. Enjoy your new (free and legal) floppy disk image!
Thanks Lane! I found this one very VERY useful! BTW it's interesting how VMware Server 2 asks for .flp type of image, but still works as a charm if you simply change extension .img > .flp ;>
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DeleteStill useful. Who would have thought in 2018 I would still need a floppy disk for something? (SparQ Drive)
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