I have a laptop with no OS.. well I messed it up   
      
   I tried to reformat with GParted, but it was supsiciously fast.  Formatting   
   should take forever, right?  I'm going to try bootable DOS ISO.  Some   
   mentioned EasyBCD but it does seem proprietary, and GParted terminal has a   
   pretty complete BASH.  But then I am thinkig to format FAT16 initially.   
      
   It had w7 but moving the partition messed it up and notheing else will load   
      
   I decided I want to put XP on it, because w7 doesn't like to be moved   
      
   I am trying to replicate an old set up (2007 AOpen desktop - won't be able to   
   access) where I used GParted and GRUB to triple boot MSDOS 6.22, XP and   
   QUantian (Knoppix/Debian)   
      
   Laptop and OSes are all old, probably as old as my old set up.   
      
   Seems one major issue is IDE Legacy vs UEFI, and MBT vs GPT.   
   Apparently old DOS wants to be the first sector.   
      
      
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