Installing Windows from virtualisation onto bootcamp partition - formatting problem!

Hello!
I hope I can describe this well enough.
I'm in the situation of trying to install Windows 7 from a .iso I've made as my superdrive is totally dead. I'm running 10.7.4.
Currently what I've done is basically the first chunk of steps from this post:
Installing Windows 7 on MacBook Pro without SuperDrive | CommitBlog
I get hung up on the windows installer right away though. When I'm installing windows into my raw disk (bootcamp.vmdk) I get this:
"Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x80070057"
I've tried reformatting the partition I made with boot camp assistant to NTFS preemptively with Paragon NTFS in hopes that the installer would skip the formatting step, but no dice.
Any thoughts on how to move forward here? Is there a permissions change that I somehow haven't made? I can't seem to find any documentation or posts on anyone in exactly this situation.
This is a really pressing problem actually, so quick responses are especially appreciated!
All the best and thanks in advance
-Ijnad

I've actually resolved this!
Well, not that I fixed it. But I was able to hack into Boot camp assistant and convinve it to let me make a bootable Windows 7 Usb key and install from that!
peace
-Ijnad

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