| English | French |
| floppy disk | disquette (A reusable magnetic storage medium. The floppy disk used today is the rigid 3.5-inch microfloppy that holds 1.44 MB. It is called floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets) |
| floppy disk drive | lecteur de disquette (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| virtual floppy disk | disquette virtuelle (A file-based version of a physical floppy disk. A virtual floppy disk is stored as a file with a .vfd file name extension) |