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Floppy Disks and Disk Images

Parallels Workstation can access real floppy disks, or create and use floppy image files that appears to virtual machine floppy drive as real diskettes. Floppy disk images used by Parallels Workstation have the .fdd format. Blank .fdd image can be created by two methods:

An .fdd image of a real diskette can be created using Parallels Image Tool, a special tool for creating images of different real media that is installed along with Parallels Workstation.

You may also use .img and .ima floppy images created by WinImage or VMware applications.