a tad OT: creating a bootable cflash card

I'm stumped. All I have to work with is a WinXP laptop that doesn't boot off anything special in particular. The CD drive yes, but that's about it. I once was able to make bootable CD's w/early versions of Norton, but I doubt that would work for a compact flash card. I had thought I could "format/s" inside a dos box...no dice. even the "format" option arrived at by right clicking doesn't allow you to create a bootable partition. apparently "fdisk" doesn't exist in XP. I don't even have my USB floppy drive handy. Not that I would imagine DOS 6.22 would recognize a PCMCIA slot. Is there a way of running an *alien* DOS within XP. In a DOS box in other words? No, I don't imagine so. Whenever you click on a foreign command.com, you get a "wrong version" message or something. No I don't have the WinXP embedded resource kit (there's a program called bootprep that allegedly might help). I'm not trying to work with XP, just utilize it to create a DOS-bootable device. help ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping