What is a .IMA file?
IMA is a raw floppy-disk image with a FAT boot sector.
- Did you know
- IMA files preserve old floppies for use in emulators and virtual machines.
- An IMA file is a raw dump of every sector on a floppy with no header or metadata, most often a 1.44 MB 3.5-inch disk.
- WinImage popularised the IMA dump and its compressed cousin IMZ, letting old diskettes be archived and re-written byte for byte.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read more disk images, firmware and VM files: TRX router firmware, USB DFU images, UEFI/BIOS flash volumes (.fd/.rom), Linux UBI volumes, Android sparse images (.simg), U-Boot FIT (.itb), raw floppy images (.dsk/.ima/.vfd with FAT boot sector), VMware snapshot metadata and NVRAM, Parallels VMs and disks (.pvm/.hdd), OVF manifests (.mf) and Veeam backups (.vbk).
- Depth of analysis
- .IMA is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .IMA file
- Drag a .IMA file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.