vsphere 5 - floppy images (read only?)

I am trying to shuttle some config files around via floppy drives as we don't have copy/paste enabled on our vpshere client.

I used the vsphere client to create a floppy image on the local datastore.

i mounted the floppy disk.

when i access it via windows server 2008 r2, it prompts me to format, and fails.

i have tried numerous format options and can't get it to work. are floppy images read only?

am i doing something wrong?

thanks

Gd