Best floppy-disk image software?

[heliomphalodon]

I'm tired of keeping all these floppies around! I'd like to make images of them and put the images on CD-RW, then reconstitute the floppies as needed.

What's the best software to do this? My needs are simple, I guess -- a program that creates an image of any floppy, compressed if possible, from which the floppy can be recreated easily and exactly.

Recommendations, please.

 

[IamDavid]

Just download all them from the internet from places like bootdisk.com.. They will come in zipped files.

How many floppy disk does someone need? I haven't used a floppy in a couple years now.

 

[OZEE]

Diskfactory. Easy to use, works well. Doesn't compress much, though.

 

[Electrode]

if you use Windows, give WinImage a try. If you use UNIX, the command dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename bs=512 should do the trick. Then do bzip2 -9 filename to compress.

 

[abovewood]

WinImage works the best for me.

 

[mrbass]

another vote for winimage.
only ones left are win98 boot floppy (keep these floppy images on cds), disk image, partition magic 8...actually I got the cd which boots so no more floppies for pm8.

 

[heliomphalodon]

For the curious, I need to have floppies containing RAID drivers and associated configuration programs. If Microsoft would improve their setup program to make it possible to browse to drivers on CDs during initial setup, well, that would be a different story...

Thanks to all for the tips!