Unable to perform clean install of win7 or winxp(!) in windpad 100w

Hi all!
Recently a friend of mine lent me his windpad 100w which had windows 8 installed in it [it originally had win7 which was removed and win 8 clean installed]. As I am not a big fan of win 8 [especially when installed in older devices] I decided to remove it and install win 7. I first wanted to delete the partition so what I did was booted in dos mode using an sd card which was formated to load win98. Using fdisk I saw that this device had two partitions rather two discs in it. One had around 30 mb of reserved space and the other had 30 gb. I couldnt delete the one which had 30 mb but could delete the 30 gb partition. After this I connected a dvd drive using a sata to usb connector and tried installing win 7. As this device has no external keyboard and only one usb slot I have to juggle using a keyboard and the usb drive [remove the drive when a point comes to use the keyboard]. Anyway I managed to get to the point where it asks where I want to install windows activated and it shows a window of the ssd drive [29.8 gb] space and below there is a message windows cannot be installed to this disc! I tried creating new partitions, formatting but not matter what the same message! Frustuated I decided to see if windows xp can be installed. In its case I had more luck it let me format the drive in ntfs format and all winxp files were loaded and it restarts to the point where it says windows xp is installing. Over here it stops at a point with a popup windows telling something like asms cannot be loaded and asks me to browse to point where its located. The thing is the usb keyboard doesnt work and neither does the ok button on the tablet! Among other methods I have tried are using universal usb installer, unetboot but no matter what I use it gets stuck at some point or the other. Can anyone please recommend some other method to install win 7 or even winxp?

Try hooking it up to another Apple using network sharing. The apple web site has instructions also for turning a computer, hard drive and all, into a slave to another. You should be able to not only wipe everything out but install a new os as well.

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