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Did I just brick?

I installed CM7 as per the instructions, but now I can't get into the OS. I can't even get back into CWM.
I installed everything just fine, and when I booted up, I got the CM7 splash screen, and then a total black screen. No matter what I've done to the SD card, it just stays at the black screen.
I installed Dalingrins (sp?) OC kernel too, so I don't know if that could of messed it up in any way
My NC is a blue sticker, by the way.

Can you boot to CWM from your SD card?
You may need to repartition your nook to the old setup and then attempt to load CM7

Rastven said:
Can you boot to CWM from your SD card?
You may need to repartition your nook to the old setup and then attempt to load CM7
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Nope. not at all. I've tried putting the CWM image on the SD card from several different PC's in case mine was just messing with me. But no go.

Try a new CWM image and/or a new SD card.
I actually found an old sandisk class 2 4Gb SD card worked great to make my bootable CWM SD Card.

Sinful Animosity said:
I installed CM7 as per the instructions, but now I can't get into the OS. I can't even get back into CWM.
I installed everything just fine, and when I booted up, I got the CM7 splash screen, and then a total black screen. No matter what I've done to the SD card, it just stays at the black screen.
I installed Dalingrins (sp?) OC kernel too, so I don't know if that could of messed it up in any way
My NC is a blue sticker, by the way.
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1: Please don't say brick when referring to the NC. Until you have to JTAG a G1, you don't know what brick is.
2: Are you trying to boot CM off of an SD card or the internal memory? MAKE SURE you downloaded the eMMC kernel (not SD) if you are installing to the internal memory.
3: How about some more details of what kernel/rom version you downloaded, file name, how you went about it, etc. Then instead of this needless back and forth, we can solve it in one go, eh?

"I installed CM7 as per the instructions" = which instructions?

ace7196 said:
1: Please don't say brick when referring to the NC. Until you have to JTAG a G1, you don't know what brick is.
2: Are you trying to boot CM off of an SD card or the internal memory? MAKE SURE you downloaded the eMMC kernel (not SD) if you are installing to the internal memory.
3: How about some more details of what kernel/rom version you downloaded, file name, how you went about it, etc. Then instead of this needless back and forth, we can solve it in one go, eh?
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Okay, first, no need to be rude.
Second, I have JTAGed a device. My Captivate had to be JTAGed after a bad ODIN flash. So thanks so much for telling me what to not call my device that won't boot up no matter what I do. Also, thanks for telling me what I do and don't know.
I downloaded the eMMC kernel, Dalingrin's OC kernel. I followed this guide in General: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227 I followed every single step.
I didn't cut any corners, and I did exactly as it told me. Only thing I didn't do was re-partition it.

Looks like you tried to install CM7 into your internal memory (per instructions).
I assume that you have not flash CwM internally.
If that's the case, re-prepare the bootable CwM uSD again, boot the NC back into CwM recovery, do format /system, format /data, format /cache first then install the zip file (CM7, gapps) then go back and wipe data/factory reset. Remove uSD then reboot.
Give it some times to load.

[Q] stuck on a boot screen

my nook is stuck on this boot screen any one wants to help me? here is the image

I would suggest you will need to provide more details about how you got to this state to get folk to help you -
what rom are you running?
what were you doing just prior to this? etc etc
In any event, maybe doing one of the following, depending on what state you want the nook end up at, might help -
install CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
restore to stock - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Cheers,

frogger55 said:
I would suggest you will need to provide more details about how you got to this state to get folk to help you -
what rom are you running?
what were you doing just prior to this? etc etc
In any event, maybe doing one of the following, depending on what state you want the nook end up at, might help -
install CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
restore to stock - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Cheers,
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cm tried flashing another but got stuck on this screen tried the factory reset but gives me an error and it wont boot into sdcard

i do get the touch something screen

I've got stuck in this "Android" screen when I tried to update my existing CM7. This is what I've done.
1. Boot to recovery.
2. Wipe cache
3. Install the update from SD and choose the CM7 file and google apps
4. Wipe data/factory
5. Format or insert a new sd before re-booting.
I encounter the same error on the first reboot. Booting up the second time solved it. It does hang at the CM logo for bout 5 min on the second boot.

artojeda1988 said:
i do get the touch something screen
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You shouldn't be getting a touch anything screen depending on what CM7 file you are using. Go here and start the process all over. Make sure you use the latest version of CWR (3.2.0.1): http://mrm3.net/nook-color-how-to-install-cyanogenmod-nightlies/

airflood said:
I've got stuck in this "Android" screen when I tried to update my existing CM7. This is what I've done.
1. Boot to recovery.
2. Wipe cache
3. Install the update from SD and choose the CM7 file and google apps
4. Wipe data/factory
5. Format or insert a new sd before re-booting.
I encounter the same error on the first reboot. Booting up the second time solved it. It does hang at the CM logo for bout 5 min on the second boot.
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patruns said:
You shouldn't be getting a touch anything screen depending on what CM7 file you are using. Go here and start the process all over. Make sure you use the latest version of CWR (3.2.0.1): http://mrm3.net/nook-color-how-to-install-cyanogenmod-nightlies/
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thanx u guys got it

now it wont let me format cache data or system it gives me an error any clue why?

[Q] Acer A500 won't move past splash screen

Something got messed up when I tried to flash my acer a500 from a rooted version of 3.1. One problem I have (and I admit it was my fault) is I did not move my backed up ROM to my external card - so I don't have anything to restore.
My device will boot to CWM (v5, rev 1.3.4), I've tried loading several different ROMs just to flash something on there to get my device back to square one.
I got in this predicament because I had regular OTA 3.2 and couldn't root. I downgraded to 3.1 (buggy and endless FC), but I was able to run gingerbreak for rooting, do a backup (titanium) and my impression at that point was I could flash a custom mod through CWM.
Nothing is working. I have formatted the sd card in CWM and tried ROMs like Thor 14.2, Tabooney 3.0 and several 3.1/3.2 Acer stock ROMs. After wiping data/factory, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik and Battery Stats and then trying to load a zip file from /sdcard it either tells me the installation fails (which most believe is a bad dl), or (in the case of CWM_ROM_A500_701414_GEN1.zip), the install actually goes through - Finding update...opening update...Installing update... - but whenever I reboot after a *successful* install my device just hangs at the Acer logo/splash screen forever.
I've tried resetting the device (power/ + vol /lock on/off/on/off) and it hangs for a long time Erasing Cache.
I'm overwhelmed. I just want to get a stock ROM on that will install successfully so I can have a functional machine back. Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or what I can do here? Thanks

Never mind
I used a different SD card and that did the trick

jcs1 said:
I used a different SD card and that did the trick
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Enjoy the little things in life
Probably have a corrupted SD. Might just do a full format on it and still be usable.

[Q] Nook stuck on loading on Cyanoboot screen

Hello,
I was running one of the CM9 nightlies and decided to try one of eyeballer's with OpenGL, and was able to make the switch without any problems, but after a while wanted to go to a non-openGL build and after flashing it my Nook won't boot past the loading screen.
I have a 1GB card with CMW which I'm able to boot to, I've tried wiping data, format boot and format system and reinstalling one of the builds that had previously worked, but still get stuck on Cyanoboot's loading screen. Even tried going back down to CM7 to see if that helped, but stuck on that loading screen as well.
What am I missing here? I've formatted boot, system, cache, data, everything, but the issue persists.
Any suggestions as to how I can make my Nook come back to live.

ryuz4ki said:
Hello,
I was running one of the CM9 nightlies and decided to try one of eyeballer's with OpenGL, and was able to make the switch without any problems, but after a while wanted to go to a non-openGL build and after flashing it my Nook won't boot past the loading screen.
I have a 1GB card with CMW which I'm able to boot to, I've tried wiping data, format boot and format system and reinstalling one of the builds that had previously worked, but still get stuck on Cyanoboot's loading screen. Even tried going back down to CM7 to see if that helped, but stuck on that loading screen as well.
What am I missing here? I've formatted boot, system, cache, data, everything, but the issue persists.
Any suggestions as to how I can make my Nook come back to live.
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Well, for one thing, never format boot.
After trying cm7, you still get cyanoboot? It should have changed to the green cyanogenmod logo. If not then your flashes are not working.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

After flashing CM7 I get the green boot screen, but my Nook also gets stuck on that loading screen.
When flashing CM9 I can press the ''N'' button and scroll the available boot methods, but when I choose one I get stuck on loading again.
So on both CMs I'm getting stucked on ''loading'', which started to happen on Monday after going from one of the openGL builds to the latest non-openGL build.

ryuz4ki said:
After flashing CM7 I get the green boot screen, but my Nook also gets stuck on that loading screen.
When flashing CM9 I can press the ''N'' button and scroll the available boot methods, but when I choose one I get stuck on loading again.
So on both CMs I'm getting stucked on ''loading'', which started to happen on Monday after going from one of the openGL builds to the latest non-openGL build.
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Ok, that means that CWM is putting the boot files on the boot partition since they change CM7 vs CM9.
Which version is your CWM on the SD?
You can't boot to anything, not even emmc recovery? Or you just can't boot to 'normal'? Do you even have emmc recovery installed? If you don't, get the first file on this post and flash it with your CWM card. You may be in a recovery bootloop, without a recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21932561
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

Thank you leapinlar, seems like it was me having an old CWM on my boot card that wasn't helping me, installed the recovery zip and manage to boot into that from cyanoboot's loading screen and reflashed and managed to boot my Nook.
I'm still intrigue as to how this happened, do you think that when switching between openGL and non-openGL the boot partition got corrupted or something? I've been flashing many roms for almost a year and had never had this issue happen to me before.
Thanks a million for taking time to help me, you're a life saver.

ryuz4ki said:
Thank you leapinlar, seems like it was me having an old CWM on my boot card that wasn't helping me, installed the recovery zip and manage to boot into that from cyanoboot's loading screen and reflashed and managed to boot my Nook.
I'm still intrigue as to how this happened, do you think that when switching between openGL and non-openGL the boot partition got corrupted or something? I've been flashing many roms for almost a year and had never had this issue happen to me before.
Thanks a million for taking time to help me, you're a life saver.
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It's possible your recovery somehow got corrupted during the flash. If that happens, it does not clear the recovery boot flag and it keeps trying to boot to recovery and it can't because it is corrupted. And it just bootloops forever.
Also, make sure your CWM bootable card is a recent version. If you have a newer nook and an old CWM and you try to clear data, it fails and you have a mess.

Hi, I am totally new at this but I been having a nook color for over a year now and been running CM7 on it for the longest time. Tonight I wanted to put CM9 on and for whatever I did now I just can't seem to get pass the Cyanoboot screen. Doesnt matter what I do it just gives me a blank screen and stays there. What do I gotta do to fix it or get rid of this cyanoboot and back to CWM so i can re flash everything. Any help would be great. Thanks

huyroy said:
Hi, I am totally new at this but I been having a nook color for over a year now and been running CM7 on it for the longest time. Tonight I wanted to put CM9 on and for whatever I did now I just can't seem to get pass the Cyanoboot screen. Doesnt matter what I do it just gives me a blank screen and stays there. What do I gotta do to fix it or get rid of this cyanoboot and back to CWM so i can re flash everything. Any help would be great. Thanks
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Try flashing latest CM7 then CM9 over the top. Might want to format Data and wipe caches in between.

DizzyDen said:
Try flashing latest CM7 then CM9 over the top. Might want to format Data and wipe caches in between.
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I cant flash anything right now. I cant go into CWM and it just stuck at the cyanoboot screen and whatever choice i pick from that screen will give me a blank screen.

huyroy said:
I cant flash anything right now. I cant go into CWM and it just stuck at the cyanoboot screen and whatever choice i pick from that screen will give me a blank screen.
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Try using my bootable CWM card in my tips thread in my signature. It works fine under ordinary circumstances, but I have been wanting someone to try it to see if it gets you out of that bootloop.
Edit: Just a question out of curiosity. When you finished flashing that new ROM with your CWM, were you able to reboot from CWM normally using the menu choice? Or was there some lockup or something where you had to reboot from CWM by hard powering off?

leapinlar said:
Try using my bootable CWM card in my tips thread in my signature. It works fine under ordinary circumstances, but I have been wanting someone to try it to see if it gets you out of that bootloop.
Edit: Just a question out of curiosity. When you finished flashing that new ROM with your CWM, were you able to reboot from CWM normally using the menu choice? Or was there some lockup or something where you had to reboot from CWM by hard powering off?
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I believe i had to powering off. I'm sorry but I didnt quite understand what you told me to do with the bootable CWM. I am fairly new to all this flashing ROMS crap. If u can explain it a lil bit better that would be greatly appreciated.

huyroy said:
I believe i had to powering off. I'm sorry but I didnt quite understand what you told me to do with the bootable CWM. I am fairly new to all this flashing ROMS crap. If u can explain it a lil bit better that would be greatly appreciated.
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Just follow the directions in the thread to make the card. Then put it in the nook and try booting. If it boots to CWM, just use it to flash like DizzyDen said. And when you exit, use the menu to choose re-boot.
PS, the hard powering off caused the problem. CWM was not able to clear the recovery flag and you ended up in a recovery bootloop. Let me know if my card boots.

leapinlar said:
Just follow the directions in the thread to make the card. Then put it in the nook and try booting. If it boots to CWM, just use it to flash like DizzyDen said. And when you exit, use the menu to choose re-boot.
PS, the hard powering off caused the problem. CWM was not able to clear the recovery flag and you ended up in a recovery bootloop. Let me know if my card boots.
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Ok I read the instruction, i know i gotta put the bootable CMW Recovery SD. you said the file is attached to the board... what board? where can i get this file? lol thanks

huyroy said:
Ok I read the instruction, i know i gotta put the bootable CMW Recovery SD. you said the file is attached to the board... what board? where can i get this file? lol thanks
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Look at the link in my signature. If you read the instructions, scroll to the bottom. Attached to that post.

leapinlar said:
Look at the link in my signature. If you read the instructions, scroll to the bottom. Attached to that post.
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I got it to work, thanks alot running 4.0.4 now. Slightly choppier than the CM7 I had on but whatever lol

huyroy said:
I got it to work, thanks alot running 4.0.4 now. Slightly choppier than the CM7 I had on but whatever lol
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Thank YOU for testing my card and proving that gets you out of the recovery bootloop you were in.
You need to take one more step. You need to put a new CWM back on your internal memory so it is there ready for the next time you want to install a ROM. If you go back to my tips thread, there is a link to a new flashable CWM zip (version 5.5.0.4) that can be put on your internal memory. The link is in item B1. Just download that zip file, then boot one more time to my bootable CWM card and install that zip. You should not need my card anymore after that unless you get in a bootloop again.

I've had something similar going on. I believe my nook has been using the EMMC to boot. It was on CM7. I grabbed the latest open GL CM9 because I plan on giving this to my parents. I wanted them to be able to use the TWC TV/DVR app which only works on ICS. I am stuck in a loop where it keeps going to recovery and neither flashing cm9 again nor recovering to an old back up is working. Is the recovery SD card the suggested method for fixing this? I'm not stuck in a loop but I am stuck and having to go into recovery every boot.
For awhile, the N menu gave me both EMMC and SD card boot options. Now it only has EMMC ones.

NapalmDawn said:
I've had something similar going on. I believe my nook has been using the EMMC to boot. It was on CM7. I grabbed the latest open GL CM9 because I plan on giving this to my parents. I wanted them to be able to use the TWC TV/DVR app which only works on ICS. I am stuck in a loop where it keeps going to recovery and neither flashing cm9 again nor recovering to an old back up is working. Is the recovery SD card the suggested method for fixing this? I'm not stuck in a loop but I am stuck and having to go into recovery every boot.
For awhile, the N menu gave me both EMMC and SD card boot options. Now it only has EMMC ones.
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You could try the new CWM SD. Just make sure when you finish using CWM to exit from that by using the 'reboot' choice in the menu. Do not just hard power off.

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You could try the new CWM SD. Just make sure when you finish using CWM to exit from that by using the 'reboot' choice in the menu. Do not just hard power off.
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So slap the image on a clean SD card and boot up from it. After it's done and I hit reboot, what would I do to get back to CM7 or CM9? I haven't had to do something like this yet. Any time I've had issues, I've been lucky enough to go back to a saved clockwork backup and restore things back to how they should be

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So slap the image on a clean SD card and boot up from it. After it's done and I hit reboot, what would I do to get back to CM7 or CM9? I haven't had to do something like this yet. Any time I've had issues, I've been lucky enough to go back to a saved clockwork backup and restore things back to how they should be
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First thing I would try is just to exit the new CWM via the menu to see if it gets you out of the bootloop. Retry booting without the SD in. If it will still only boot to recovery, I would again boot to my CWM and flash the new recovery to emmc. Next I would try to restore your old nandroid backup with the new CWM. If none of that works, flash a new CM to emmc with the new CWM.

Nook wont boot up

Hey, i'm new. Just made this account to get help with my nook. Anyway i'll just tell you all what happened because i don't know much about it.
There's two problems i have with it. 1 - Can't sync my google account and 2 - Can't get past the boot animation, keeps re-booting
BTW just got the nook color second hand yesterday, he said it had Android 2.2? on it, not too sure. He also said he did a factory reset on it, hence me trying to link my google account etc. As of right now, i'm not sure if it is rooted or has a ROM? or anything, i just want it going again.
Problem 1 - It was going fine and I was setting it up with the android start up thingy on the screen, but no matter what I tried I couldn't sync my google account with it to get on the android store. I could go on the internet and gmail etc fine, just nothing that needed a google account synced. I tried the usual fix of signing into YouTube using the gmail account but this still didn't link the device to my google account.
Problem 2 - Just last night when I was reading a book on it, it shut off randomly, I thought thats odd because it was like half battery, so I plugged it in via usb. Now whenever I plug it in to usb. It reboots and reboots and reboots. It shows the touch the future of reading logo, then a grey n, then the screen flashes yellow for a split second. It goes to a screen saying it is installing a new software update, but would cut out part way through and re-start the reboot loop. When i unplug it from the power it shuts off and wont turn on. I tried a factory reset and this started, but when it finished 'clearing data' it cut out and restarted the boot loop. As i'm typing it's next to me continuously re-booting.
Please help!! I'm a noob and need guidance haha.
But seriously thanks to anyone who helps
Joel

It could be trying to do a self repair of / rom and failing. Read about that in my tips thread linked in my signature. Look at item A12.

leapinlar said:
It could be trying to do a self repair of / rom and failing. Read about that in my tips thread linked in my signature. Look at item A12.
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Thanks for the reply. I think i've got nook version 1.1. thats what it said before it started the boot loop. I'm just wondering what i need to flash to the sd card?
Thanks

longschlongsilver said:
Thanks for the reply. I think i've got nook version 1.1. thats what it said before it started the boot loop. I'm just wondering what i need to flash to the sd card?
Thanks
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Make yourself a bootable CWM card as in my item A10. Then you can flash whatever you want. A new stock 1.4.3 as I said in A12 or partition repairs as I said in my partition repair thread. Or CM roms. Or the romrestore repair zip. Lots of possibilities.

leapinlar said:
Make yourself a bootable CWM card as in my item A10. Then you can flash whatever you want. A new stock 1.4.3 as I said in A12 or partition repairs as I said in my partition repair thread. Or CM roms. Or the romrestore repair zip. Lots of possibilities.
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So I make the CWM card. If i flash the stock 1.4.3 is that how it comes originally? Then can i root it from there, then CM7 etc? And is that all compatible with the 1.1 version? sorry for all the questions. and thanks so much! Any ideas on syncing a google account once i get it going?
Cheers

If you want to run stock, flash the 1.4.3 zip that I linked to. It is B&N's lastest version of stock (newer than 1.1) that I modified so it can be flashed with CWM. Then go to Manual Nooter 5.02.19. That will root you and allow you to install other apps.
Or if you want CM, just flash the version you want followed by the appropriate gapps zip. You do not need to update stock first, just flash away.
It is a good idea when switching types of roms to wipe first. You can flash my format 5,6,7 zip to wipe if you want.
Edit: After rereading your first post, you must get out of your bootloop before you can run anything. Just flashing a new rom may not fix it. If it does, great, but you may need to flash some repair zips first. And if you wipe, that may fix your Google login issues.

leapinlar said:
If you want to run stock, flash the 1.4.3 zip that I linked to. It is B&N's lastest version of stock (newer than 1.1) that I modified so it can be flashed with CWM. Then go to Manual Nooter 5.02.19. That will root you and allow you to install other apps.
Or if you want CM, just flash the version you want followed by the appropriate gapps zip. You do not need to update stock first, just flash away.
It is a good idea when switching types of roms to wipe first. You can flash my format 5,6,7 zip to wipe if you want.
Edit: After rereading your first post, you must get out of your bootloop before you can run anything. Just flashing a new rom may not fix it. If it does, great, but you may need to flash some repair zips first. And if you wipe, that may fix your Google login issues.
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Sorry for my noobness but what does flash and wipe mean? Never done this before. I just got an sd card reader thing so i can write things on it with win32 disk imager. So to get out of the boot loop i have to flash? a repair zip? I had a look on the help post of yours, would 'NookColor-emmc-stockrecovery-CWM5504asAlt.zip' work? and do i write the whole zip file on the sd card without extracting anything? then what would i do? just turn it on? sorry once again you're a huge help

The first thing you do is unzip the file cwm-5.5.0.4-bootable_SD.zip. That will give a file about 200MB in size with a .img file name. Use win32diskimager to burn that .img file to your SD. Then that card can be used to copy (flash) things to your internal memory to either fix it or put new roms on it. If you put that card in the nook and boot up from a powered off state, the CWM program should start. You can use that to put new things on your internal memory.
Wipe means to format or erase things. Sometimes it is important to wipe what is already there before you try to put new things on.
Given your description of the problem, I would burn the CWM to SD, copy the zip named romrestore-CWMflashable.zip to the SD with your PC, put the SD in the nook, boot and the CWM menu should come up. Select "install zip from SD" and hit the n button. Then select "choose zip from SD" and hit n. Then scroll to the file you copied and hit n. Confirm the choice and CWM will begin it's thing. Watch for error messages. If it completes successfully, power off and remove the SD and see if it will boot. If it does boot successfully, you just repaired it. If it did not repair it, go to my partition repair thread and try some of those repair zips using the same technique.
If you were successful with the repairs, you can use the CWM SD to flash new roms to internal memory (stock or CM). Don't forget to wipe first if you do. An easy, surefire way to wipe is to flash my format 5-6-7 zip on my tips thread.

FIXED! Thanks so much. Gonna root now and then install cm7 or something haha, thanks again for your patience!