a tad OT: creating a bootable cflash card

[UnR00ster]

You could try a virtual pc...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris M" <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
To: "talk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:20 PM
Subject: 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
>
>
> 
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