[Q] cwm not restoring? MOTO G XT-1045

So I'm kinda new to this so forgive me if I cannot provide adequate information.

Background/Necessary info
Just recently, my phone died and wouldn't turn back on. I fixed this by keeping my phone on the charger forever and holding the power button forever. When the phone finally powered back on, every app began to crash, including process com.google.process.gapps. It was so bad to the point where I couldn't use the phone normally. I tried to fix it by booting into recovery and restoring the phone to the factory version. This brings me to:

The problem
I wiped data/factory reset, wiped the cache and cleared the dalvik cache. For the first time I saw this:

E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_install
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_install

I thought those messages didn't mean anything significant, so I went ahead and tried to restore, and I got the error:

Error while restoring /system!

A lot of research on google led me to some:

Attempted fixes
I tried unmounting and mounting system/data/cache/external sd, formatting the cache/system, to reinstall my existing mod from my sd card (that gave me error 7), and I tried wiping the cache partition. Nothing worked.

How do I get rid of those error messages? What am I doing wrongly? It might be staring me right in the face but I cannot see it lol

Also ill post more info if needed. Thanks in advance!