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Restoring ?

I'm currently running phiremod nook V3 found here(followed the instructions too):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954902
I'm trying to get the OC kernal installed but can't get adb to recognize my nook. I'm guessing this might have to do with me not hooking my nook up to install the correct drivers.
Can I use this guide to get my internal partition back to stock software?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699&highlight=adb
Thanks for helping a NC noob out.

Does your Nook boot at all? Or does it just stay on a black screen?

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Thanks for the quick responses. Im currently still running phiremod. No problems with it yet. Just flashed the app fix.
I more curious if I went by those steps I mentioned above if I could get back to stock.
Sent from my NookColor using XDA App

Yes, they would work, burning an SD card, and copying the 1.0.1 (or whichever version you want to restore to) zip file to the SD card, and flashing that.
As for the OC kernel, Dalingrin has a .zip file that you flash from Clockwork just like how you installed phiremod. You'd want the one that is for CM7.

claudius753 said:
Yes, they would work, burning an SD card, and copying the 1.0.1 (or whichever version you want to restore to) zip file to the SD card, and flashing that.
As for the OC kernel, Dalingrin has a .zip file that you flash from Clockwork just like how you installed phiremod. You'd want the one that is for CM7.
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Can you help me out with a link to that zip? I'm searching through all 56 pages and haven't had much luck haha. Only if you have the time. Thanks.

Here ya go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451

claudius753 said:
Here ya go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451
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So I was looking at the right thing. D'OH!
So from my reformatted SD card I'll download this to root of SD with CWR
-Froyo and CM7 Only
DOWNLOADS:
eMMC:
Froyo and CM7 (eMMC installations only) CWM update: http://www.multiupload.com/IJK50K41GG
Power NC on
Install from SD
Select file and install
Remove SD
Reboot?
EDIT: Do I unzip that file or leave it as is?
Many thanks.

Do not unzip. Copy that zip onto your SD card that has CWM burned to it. The actual process of flashing it takes only a few seconds, not as long as flashing the whole ROM takes.

Got it! Thanks again for clearing things up for me. Things are a little different than my dx.
Sent from my NookColor using XDA App

[Q] Have I destroyed my nook? Tried everything from google.

And now I'm at your mercy.
I received my Nook Color (1.1.0) today and immediately rooted it with Autonooter 3.0
After that, I went ahead and attempted to flash the Honeycomb rom. I was greeted with this error message in Clockwork and now no matter what I do, every time I clear everything and attemot to install a romm.zip, I get this error message in CWM:
Installing update...
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "zoom2" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "zoom2:
E:Error in /sdcard/romrestore.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
Any help?

If clockwork works you should be able to fix it. Try downloading the rom again. I had a bad download once.

-RioT- said:
If clockwork works you should be able to fix it. Try downloading the rom again. I had a bad download once.
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Sadly I've tried it a good 5-6 times. I get the same error every time. I've even tried redownloading CWM too in case of a bad download, nothing works.

PGibbons999 said:
Sadly I've tried it a good 5-6 times. I get the same error every time. I've even tried redownloading CWM too in case of a bad download, nothing works.
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are you attempting to use CWR from a SD card, or from internal memory? Which CWR version are you using? Also what are you selecting in CWR to install your zip file?
Have you tried Re-burning your SD card, it sounds like the image might be corrupted.
Also if you wiped everything try Restoring back to stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Use this thread.
**O yeah also, which HC rom are you attempting to use, and did you check your download against the MD5?
Is it this rom? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947071 it listed MD5. so you can make sure you download is not corrupted.

therealguppy said:
are you attempting to use CWR from a SD card, or from internal memory? Which CWR version are you using? Also what are you selecting in CWR to install your zip file?
Have you tried Re-burning your SD card, it sounds like the image might be corrupted.
Also if you wiped everything try Restoring back to stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Use this thread.
**O yeah also, which HC rom are you attempting to use, and did you check your download against the MD5?
Is it this rom? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947071 it listed MD5. so you can make sure you download is not corrupted.
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-From SD card
-Already formatted and reburned a billion times, same thing
-Already tried that .zip, still no-go

Oh im not even trying HC right now. Just trying to get stock rom back first. I cant even boot into a rom anymore, it wont turn on unless there's CWM on the SD card.

PGibbons999 said:
Oh im not even trying HC right now. Just trying to get stock rom back first. I cant even boot into a rom anymore, it wont turn on unless there's CWM on the SD card.
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Ok well that Link should work for you then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Also I was reading on the HC thread, and looks like the newest version requires EXT4 CWR, which is Version 3.0.0.6 the old version 3.0.0.5 will not work for CM7 or that new HC version. So if you were using the old version that would be the problem.
Don't worry you haven't broken your nook if you can still boot off the SD card, then you can Recover your nook. It might just take some reading of the threads.

therealguppy said:
Ok well that Link should work for you then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Also I was reading on the HC thread, and looks like the newest version requires EXT4 CWR, which is Version 3.0.0.6 the old version 3.0.0.5 will not work for CM7 or that new HC version. So if you were using the old version that would be the problem.
Don't worry you haven't broken your nook if you can still boot off the SD card, then you can Recover your nook. It might just take some reading of the threads.
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My nook was 1.1.0, should I just re-download the 1.0.1 again and burn that and CWM on the SD card?

PGibbons999 said:
My nook was 1.1.0, should I just re-download the 1.0.1 again and burn that and CWM on the SD card?
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Just download the 1.0.1 zip files put it in the root of the CWR Sd card, and flash it to the system like any flashable zip file. Remember to Clear your System and Data partitions first. then once that is done you should beable to boot into a completely clean and freash non-rooted 1.0.1 state, Then just download the 1.1 update from B&N website, and do a normal update to 1.1 then you can Root it or anything you want.

therealguppy said:
Just download the 1.0.1 zip files put it in the root of the CWR Sd card, and flash it to the system like any flashable zip file. Remember to Clear your System and Data partitions first. then once that is done you should beable to boot into a completely clean and freash non-rooted 1.0.1 state, Then just download the 1.1 update from B&N website, and do a normal update to 1.1 then you can Root it or anything you want.
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Which version of CWM should I use? Download link?

PGibbons999 said:
Which version of CWM should I use? Download link?
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If you are restoring to Stock 2.1 then the old one 3.0.0.5 will work fine,
if you need to install that HC rom, or CM7 then you wil need the 3.0.0.6 version which supports EXT4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959240
I'm pretty sure you can use that to flash EX3 partition as well, so that one will be good for using from now on till a newer version comes out.

therealguppy said:
If you are restoring to Stock 2.1 then the old one 3.0.0.5 will work fine,
if you need to install that HC rom, or CM7 then you wil need the 3.0.0.6 version which supports EXT4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959240
I'm pretty sure you can use that to flash EX3 partition as well, so that one will be good for using from now on till a newer version comes out.
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O man I'm behind the times, CWR is up to 3.0.1.0 which is what you should be using for everything now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197

therealguppy said:
O man I'm behind the times, CWR is up to 3.0.1.0 which is what you should be using for everything now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
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This is all greek to me. Explain/help?

Jesus christ Im so lost/confused.
I think I've already tried 3.0.0.6 with CWM before and it didnt change anything. The new version is a bunch of files I dont understand.
I just got this thing today and now it's completely useless and I dont understand half of the instructions.
ARG

PGibbons999 said:
Jesus christ Im so lost/confused.
I think I've already tried 3.0.0.6 with CWM before and it didnt change anything. The new version is a bunch of files I dont understand.
I just got this thing today and now it's completely useless and I dont understand half of the instructions.
ARG
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http://mirror1.kanged.net/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.1.0-encore.img
This is the IMG file that you will need to burn to your SD card..... if your on windows I recommend using Win32Imager..... once you have your CWR sd card, Download the 1.0.1 Zip then drop that zip file into the root of the CWR SD card.... Boot off the CWR SD card. clear your system, data, and cache. Install the Zip file......
if you still can not boot after this you might have corrupted your boot Partition.
in which case you will need to download and flash THIS FILE which is a stock boot partition.
there are so many helpfully threads on this forum, you should really take some time and read through them.

Using win32
I write the .img file to the SD card (E
Then I try to drop the romrestore.zip file on to the SD card and it says I need to reformat it. This would wipe the original win32 write, wouldn't it?

PGibbons999 said:
Using win32
I write the .img file to the SD card (E
Then I try to drop the romrestore.zip file on to the SD card and it says I need to reformat it. This would wipe the original win32 write, wouldn't it?
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If windows is not seeing your sd card correctly then you either did something wrong or you sd cards is messed up..
Please tell me what windows you are using and what steps you did when you burned the img to the SD card... Also tell me what brand of SD card it is and what size.
also did you verify you download of the SD card img with MD5 checksum?

therealguppy said:
If windows is not seeing your sd card correctly then you either did something wrong or you sd cards is messed up..
Please tell me what windows you are using and what steps you did when you burned the img to the SD card... Also tell me what brand of SD card it is and what size.
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I was using win32 wrong.
Windows 7
Chose the file (recovery-clockwork-3.0.1.0-encore)
Chose the drive ( E: )
"Write" - It flashed just for a second
"Write" - Correctly wrote recovery-clockwork-3.0.1.0-encore to the SD
Put rom on SD card (romrestore.zip)
Put micro-SD into Nook
Cleared System/Data/Cache
Chose romrestore.zip
Received the same error.... again.
It's a SanDisk 4gb
also did you verify you download of the SD card img with MD5 checksum?
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Not sure what this means.

PGibbons999 said:
I was using win32 wrong.
Windows 7
Chose the file (recovery-clockwork-3.0.1.0-encore)
Chose the drive ( E: )
"Write" - It flashed just for a second
"Write" - Correctly wrote recovery-clockwork-3.0.1.0-encore to the SD
Put rom on SD card (romrestore.zip)
Put micro-SD into Nook
Cleared System/Data/Cache
Chose romrestore.zip
Received the same error.... again.
It's a SanDisk 4gb
Not sure what this means.
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When you "Chose romrestore.zip" what menu item are you using in CWR
You should be going to "install zip from sdcard" >then "choose zip from sdcard" > then select your zip... I assume you are doing it like this.
the only thing I can think of if you are doing everything write is that your Zip file is corrupted. or you permission are screwed up....
Please download http://www.winmd5.com/ and verify that the file matches the MD5 checksum...
If your using the 1.0.1 from the link I gave you then the checksum is this
md5sum: 6d00a461a221e69195440355f6706104

While I was waiting, I tried the CWM removal and that worked, I can get to the "Touch the future of reading" screen.
A step further but it's stuck there...

New to Nook Color

So I finally took the plunge and picked up the Nook color, bought it second hand with HC already on the eMMC so I am not sure exactly how anything was done before. I have been reading the guides and while not completely lost, there's just some things I am unclear of right now.
I installed Rom Manager to install CWR, after installing and flashing it I cant access Recovery, but wasnt sure if it ever worked. Was this the wrong way to go about getting CWR on the unit? I am trying now to boot into a default CWR SD card and run a fix from this thread hoping thats the issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11591197
I dont really have a need for the Stock config so putting everything on eMMC for me sounds ideal and am currently trying to get the dual boot config from here running.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461
Question now is if I get CWR running from the sd card, can i just apply the prep file and load the pre configured installations from that page? Does the dual boot both boot from eMMC? Will I need to format my existing solution to install that setup?
Thanks for any feedback.

s0n- said:
So I finally took the plunge and picked up the Nook color, bought it second hand with HC already on the eMMC so I am not sure exactly how anything was done before. I have been reading the guides and while not completely lost, there's just some things I am unclear of right now.
I installed Rom Manager to install CWR, after installing and flashing it I cant access Recovery, but wasnt sure if it ever worked. Was this the wrong way to go about getting CWR on the unit? I am trying now to boot into a default CWR SD card and run a fix from this thread hoping thats the issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11591197
I dont really have a need for the Stock config so putting everything on eMMC for me sounds ideal and am currently trying to get the dual boot config from here running.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461
Question now is if I get CWR running from the sd card, can i just apply the prep file and load the pre configured installations from that page? Does the dual boot both boot from eMMC? Will I need to format my existing solution to install that setup?
Thanks for any feedback.
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HC, as far as I know, is the only rom that does not respond well to cwr installed internally (I have had those issues). If you get an sd image of cwr burned, you can add any flashable rom to that same card and flash it in recovery (install zip from sd card). If you want to play with CM7, do a backup of your HC rom from your sd card, do your formats and flash the gb rom. I think in theory, if you wanted cwr installed internally, you can load a cwr zip on your cwr card and flash it. I have not tried to dual boot anything, so can not offer any feedback.

bdcrim said:
HC, as far as I know, is the only rom that does not respond well to cwr installed internally (I have had those issues). If you get an sd image of cwr burned, you can add any flashable rom to that same card and flash it in recovery (install zip from sd card). If you want to play with CM7, do a backup of your HC rom from your sd card, do your formats and flash the gb rom. I think in theory, if you wanted cwr installed internally, you can load a cwr zip on your cwr card and flash it. I have not tried to dual boot anything, so can not offer any feedback.
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So I ran the fix permissions and now I can boot into Recovery From Clockwork or boot from the SD card. There are a couple problems, in order to install the dual boot I need to run recovery from the eMMC but that doesnt seem to mount my SD card or I need to adb into the recovery so I can permission something to run, however doesnt seem to have adb running in Recovery and I dont see an option to restart it.

Alright so everything is working, had to format the SD card. Guess CWR SD sets it up as a boot partition so it wasnt mounting, dual booting froyo + HC, just have to figure out the OC kernels now for each.

I've already got my SD card ready to root my nook, and the files are ready to install hc v4 2nd...i can't wait this should hold me over until the 10"ers come down in price

[Q] CM7.1 on SD...CWM on eMMC...wanna update to 1.3

Well from following some instructions on here for running CM7 off an sd card I ended up installing CWM that I did not know would go to the eMMC. So I have stock nook 1.2 software and CWM on the eMMC (by mistake), and CM7.1 on SD. I want to remove CWM off the eMMC so I can update to 1.3 and to unvoid my 2 year extended warranty. I have read through threads about returning to stock, but I haven't seen anyone with my same problem using those methods to confirm if it would work in this situation. Everyone seems to have been running some kind of root on eMMC and want to keep cwm. Also with my CM7.1 sd card out I can't get into cwm even though its on the eMMC and I have tried many ways. Do I need to have an update file on an sd card in order to get cwm to run?

Might want to post to the thread for the SD card install.

Use the second file in the first post of the link below. It will restore 1.2 stock and remove CWM from the eMMC. You will have to re-register your Nook.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
Dave

1. Do I need to de-register my Nook first?
2. Will CWM 3.2.0.1 work for this?
2. If I put the file on a SD card and power on the Nook will it automatically go to CWM?
3. Is the factory reset and option in the CWM menu?

dna59 said:
1. Do I need to de-register my Nook first?
2. Will CWM 3.2.0.1 work for this?
2. If I put the file on a SD card and power on the Nook will it automatically go to CWM?
3. Is the factory reset and option in the CWM menu?
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1. Nope.
2. Yes.
2b. No. Turn off your Nook. Then press power & the N button together and hold for 5 seconds.
3. Yes.
I had the same issue and followed the directions in the other thread with success.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13200403&postcount=4

Thanks will give it a try as soon as the file finish downloading.

dna59 said:
2. Will CWM 3.2.0.1 work for this?
2. If I put the file on a SD card and power on the Nook will it automatically go to CWM?
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416inversed said:
2. Yes.
2b. No. Turn off your Nook. Then press power & the N button together and hold for 5 seconds.
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Actually if you have a separate bootable CWM microSD card (3.2.0.1 should be fine as 416 said) the Nook will default to booting from the SD card when you power on. No need to hold the N button. If the update file (zip format) I pointed to is on the SD card then you can pick it and install from the CWM menu that will come up. (I would make a backup of your current state onto the bootable CWM SD card first and copy the files to your PC just in case.)
Dave

EDIT* Ok guys here is my problem now. For the life of me it would not boot into recovery, so I tricked it by trying to install the 1.3 update which goes in CWM but fails. Once in the CwM menu after 1.3 failing I mounted the sd card and tried installing the zip that was on it. When trying to install it says installation failed and something else about verification failed similar to the 1.3 failed. Any help guys?
Would my next option be to create a CWM bootable SD? Anyone have the appropriate link?

dna59 said:
EDIT* Ok guys here is my problem now. For the life of me it would not boot into recovery, so I tricked it by trying to install the 1.3 update which goes in CWM but fails. Once in the CwM menu after 1.3 failing I mounted the sd card and tried installing the zip that was on it. When trying to install it says installation failed and something else about verification failed similar to the 1.3 failed. Any help guys?
Would my next option be to create a CWM bootable SD? Anyone have the appropriate link?
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Hrm.. seems like that may be beyond my paygrade...
Just to clarify (and sorry I can't be more specific as I just removed CWM, so I can't repeat my steps), when I did it:
1. I downloaded the aforementioned zip onto a spare sd.
2. I booted into CWM (it seems like your trick should be fine, after it gets you back to the main menu).
3. I selected "choose zip from SD" or something like that.
4. I selected choose zip from sd again (ignoring the "update.zip" option).
5. It did it's thing.
6. I selected back several times, to get main menu again.
7. I selected "factory reset" (wipe data & cache)
8. It did it's thing.
9. Reboot and I was good to go.
If that doesn't work, this thread has the instructions on taking it back to stock by creating a CWM card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
Hope it helps.

This is what I did
1. placed the zip file on a sd card
2. insert into the nook
3. power on
4. cant boot into recovery so placed the 1.3 update on emmc to fool it into going into recovery
5. 1.3 update failed but just used it to get into recovery
6. mounted sd card
7. select install zip from sd card
8. chose the file from sd card
9. yes install file from sd card
10. did not get a progress bar like the 1.3 update b4 failing
11. install failed...verification error (similar to 1.3 update error)
The problem with the thread you linked is that its using CWM 3.0.0.5 when the thread about restoring NC 1.2 says it need at least CWM 3.0.1.0

Hrmm... maybe the zip is a bad file? Have you tried downloading it again?
Beyond that, someone with more expertise may need to chime in.
Sorry about the out-of-date thread. It's just the one I bookmarked after I realized I had accidentally installed CWM to my emmc instead of my SD. I never got around to it; dtbrewer's post today seemed like an easier fix.

I got it guys. I used this site to make a bootable sd...http://mrm3.net/nook-color-updated-clockwork-recovery-bootable-sd/
Wrote the image to the sd installed the zip file and now I'm updated to 1.3 on the stock software and my 2 year extended warranty isn't voided anymore. THANKS GUYS!

dna59 said:
I got it guys. I used this site to make a bootable sd...
Wrote the image to the sd installed the zip file and now I'm updated to 1.3 on the stock software and my 2 year extended warranty isn't voided anymore. THANKS GUYS!
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Posted this in another thread, but thought I'd ask here as well. If you follow the fix listed in this thread, can you use the dual boot sd card and still have B&N 1.3? Or does updating to 1.3 mean you can no longer use the dual boot sd card. What I'd ideally like to have is dual boot from SD, but when I choose to boot to emmc, it will run the 1.3 B&N firmware. Is that even possible?

need help, nook is all messed up--solved

I use the SD card method to have the nook boot into CM7 and when the SD card is pulled, the nook would be stock to be used by my kids. But I think I messed things up and can't restore. Here is what I have done:
1- I tried to update the stock version to 1.3 manually from B&N website but soon realized I could not. It seems like when in CM7, I had tried to flash CWM recovery (which was not needed and is pretty buggy in SD card method for nook). Now the recovery in emmc appears to be CWM.
2-for some stupid reason when I got into CMM recovery, I formatted boot, system,data and cache (not sure if I did boot also or not). My thinking was to flash a stock image and be fixed. But I am now stuck.
Is there a way to go back to stock on the nook? I am still able to boot into SD card and CM7 nightly. Oh ya, I use Linux Ubuntu not windows. TIA

Sounds like you should get the system back to stock before proceeding any further.
Follow the instruction here: http://www.nookdevs.com/NookColor_UnRooting

The problem is that I get into the CWM recovery and not given the reset option following the options on that page. Any idea?
I think my problem is that I'm not really rooted in true sense since I was running off the SD card. Maybe I shoudl root properly, then unroot?

I did kind of the same thing once. I made an Sd card image with CWM on another sd card -- basically as if you are going to install CM7 to emmc. However, once you get to the point where you would flash Cm7, use the stock zip ROM. It will install that to emmc so it will be back to normal. You should then be good to go.

loveubuntu said:
The problem is that I get into the CWM recovery and not given the reset option following the options on that page. Any idea?
I think my problem is that I'm not really rooted in true sense since I was running off the SD card. Maybe I shoudl root properly, then unroot?
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If you follow the instructions you should be left with an unrooted initialized stock Nook Color. Register your account. Then you can wait for the NC to download the 1.3 update, or side load it. Once that is installed you have an unrooted 1.3 stock system.
From there you can try your CM7 card. Don't forget to remove your SD card at the very beginning since like a PC the NC will try to boot off the SD card if it is present.

jerrykur said:
If you follow the instructions you should be left with an unrooted initialized stock Nook Color. Register your account. Then you can wait for the NC to download the 1.3 update, or side load it. Once that is installed you have an unrooted 1.3 stock system.
From there you can try your CM7 card. Don't forget to remove your SD card at the very beginning since like a PC the NC will try to boot off the SD card if it is present.
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when I follow the instruction, I am not given the factory reset option. I am stuck at the n screen. It flashed the read forever but then stuck at the n screen. Do I have to wait longer than 5 minutes?

None of this is mine, I owe it ALL to the threads mentioned below.
So as in many posts on XDA say, it's almost impossible to brick the Nook. What a great device. I had to format my SD card to use it to "un-brick" my nook but it was done. I Mainly used the info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Burnt a bootable CWM image onto my SD card. It took a while doing it with dd in Linux. I'm sure it's the same in Windows or Mac. It took about 20-30 minutes. It also took a while to unzip/extract the img file from the downloaded file. Be patient
Then used the CWM recovery remover file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690 to remove my CWM recovery and used the 1.0.1 file from same thread to flash the stock image onto the nook.
Once the SD card is ready, just drop those files in the root of the sd card. It should have 4 other files in it to boot into CWM recovery from the sd card and let you use the menus to flash those two zip files. It took a while but it's all in those threads. Thanks to the members. Now lets see if I can go up to 1.3 and then root it again.
you also need to do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
and here is the ver 1.2 stock flashable with an clockwork bootable sd card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520