Can't run windows install/upgrade within windows installed on boot camp

I have an issue which seems to be something related to the new version of boot camp. I have installed Win7 on my mac, but my disc is special which requires it to be used as an upgrade. I am able to install it on a formatted partition but can't activate it until I run windows 7 setup again within windows and "Upgrade" itself. I cannot run windows setup within boot camp win7. I get the message: "Windows was unable to create a required installation folder. Error code: 0x80070005"
The reason I say "new" version of boot camp is because I found old solutions to this problem where you just have to uninstall the boot camp stuff from Windows, but you can no longer do that it seems.
Does anyone have a clue as to how I can get around this and do the upgrade?

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Originally posted by NovJoe
I think you'll need to check your HDD in another system to make sure that there isn't another lost clusters or bad sectors within the HDD.
Even though it worked fine with the old motherboard setup?  Before I tried installing windows 98 and ME, it would automatically run scandisk and it didn't report any errors.

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