If you have a floppy drive in your computer, you can simply copy the image to a blank as intended. However, if computers in your business are like most modern ones, they probably have no floppy drive.

Now here comes the tricky part: unless you happen to have a 1990s vintage computer laying around, getting these drives hooked up is decidedly non-trivial.

How to use a boot disk What is a boot disk and why do I need one? A boot disk is a floppy or a CD that you can use to boot your computer into a state in which you can use it to fix a problem.

The USB Floppy Drive Key is intended to make BIOS updates and other technical tasks – which often require you to boot from the floppy disc drive that went missing from your computer years ago ...

No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range.

Not so long ago, 3.5-inch floppy drives were something that every desktop computer had. U.K.-based Solid State Disk has a way to make them useful again.

Once upon a time, you could buy floppy drive cleaning disks at just about any stationary or computer store. These days, they’re harder to find. If you want to build one yourself, though, you ...