The phrase "a diskette" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small, portable storage medium that was commonly used for saving and transferring data before the advent of USB drives and cloud storage.
Example: "I found an old box in the attic that contained a diskette with some of my childhood projects."
Alternatives: "a floppy disk" or "a data disk".
S.P.I.E.S. HQ has obtained a diskette containing important information for your investigation.
It came on a diskette I purchased in a shop in Kadıköy, my neighborhood at the lip of the Bosphorus.
I recently tried to open a file on a diskette with 20 or 30 files on it.
The problem was most commonly manifested when data files were stored in the root directory of a diskette.
Arno Schmidt, a former Waldorf-Astoria executive chef (who has a computer programmer son), offers help with Menuspell, a diskette containing 26,000 menu terms.
Macintosh computers have not had floppy drives for years, but there are other ways to get the data from a diskette copied to the iMac.
Humor is in the eye of the mouse-holder, and some people might not be amused when their Macs suddenly start making a retching noise every time they eject a floppy diskette.
Mr. Dinkic said he also was thrown a computer diskette from a window of the statistical bureau that contains election results from individual polling stations.
On December 9, 2008 (the sixteenth anniversary of the original Transmission), "The Agrippa Files", working with a scholarly team at the University of Maryland, released an emulated run of the entire poem (derived from an original diskette loaned by a collector) and an hour's worth of "bootleg" footage shot covertly at the Americas Society (the source of the text that was posted on MindVox).
A recent development, the digital camera, makes it possible to bypass the film/paper step completely by capturing the image into the camera's random-access memory or a special diskette and then transferring it to a personal computer.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1993 is supplemented by a computer diskette, presented in English only on an experimental basis.
