Reinstallation CD

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I recently ran the operating system reinstallation Cd for Windows XP Home
Edition (which I should NOT have done as I had the system factory installed
and was happy with it ~ its a long stupid story and I swear my computer asked
me to insert the operating system service pack 2) ) After a bit, the
installation stoppped with a Bad_Pool_Caller ~ I got the scary blue screen ~
the installation never finalized ~ threw me out ~ and now i can't get my
computer to start with anything but yet another attempt to finish this
installation process ~ it is a frustrating groundhog day loop ~ ~ i have
F8'ed it to the advanced startup screen and nothing works there ~ i cant
enter under safe mode ~ it will not go back to a time when all was well ~ i
cant get into the start mode feature (no control panel or uninstall or remove
or system restore functions available) ~ i have F12'ed and F2'ed both to no
avail as far as I can tell (interesting but not helpful, at least to me) ~

so, I guess my questions are: how (if possible) do i stop my computer's
obession with installation (which will never end well, in fact, as evidenced,
will never end), do i have to go in and reset to the factory settings and
lose everything, or is there ANYTHING I can do to stop the madness and return
to my computer as I knew it before this stupid boy-do-i-wish-i
had-just-left-my-darn-computer-alone incident?

At some point I did get thefollowing errors:
0x000000C2 (invalid software interrupt), 0x00000CD4 (some kind of pg fault),
0x00340045 (i have no idea) and 0XE17A34C (again, no idea)

Also: if I get a physical memory dump complete message is the whole party
over and i simply have to accept it and reset to factory settings as
everything is gone anyway?

THANKS to anyone who got through reading all that is still conscious and
willing to answer!
 
service pack 2 is not a windows cd its a seprate cd you could have orderd
from microsoft i have one.
but at this point you might as well run the restore from the factory
partition of youre hard drive via the makers directions.
 
Try saving your Data using Knoppix:

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Download/Save the above Knoppix Live CD ISO file.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Download the Vista Burning software from the above link.

After installing above ISO burning software, right-click on Knoppix ISO
file, make an Image disk.

Knoppix does not install on your PC; just uses your PC's resources, RAM,
Graphics, etc.

Plug in a Flash Drive/Memory Stick, boot with the Live CD, and you should be
able to read your Hard Drive.
Change the Flash Drive Properties from read only.
Copy your Data over to FD
 
NEEDSHELP said:
I recently ran the operating system reinstallation Cd for Windows XP
Home Edition (which I should NOT have done as I had the system
factory installed and was happy with it ~ its a long stupid story and
I swear my computer asked me to insert the operating system service
pack 2) ) After a bit, the installation stoppped with a
Bad_Pool_Caller ~ I got the scary blue screen ~ the installation
never finalized ~ threw me out ~ and now i can't get my computer to
start with anything but yet another attempt to finish this
installation process ~ it is a frustrating groundhog day loop ~ ~ i
have F8'ed it to the advanced startup screen and nothing works there
~ i cant enter under safe mode ~ it will not go back to a time when
all was well ~ i cant get into the start mode feature (no control
panel or uninstall or remove or system restore functions available) ~
i have F12'ed and F2'ed both to no avail as far as I can tell
(interesting but not helpful, at least to me) ~

so, I guess my questions are: how (if possible) do i stop my
computer's obession with installation (which will never end well, in
fact, as evidenced, will never end), do i have to go in and reset to
the factory settings and lose everything, or is there ANYTHING I can
do to stop the madness and return to my computer as I knew it before
this stupid boy-do-i-wish-i had-just-left-my-darn-computer-alone
incident?

At some point I did get thefollowing errors:
0x000000C2 (invalid software interrupt), 0x00000CD4 (some kind of pg
fault), 0x00340045 (i have no idea) and 0XE17A34C (again, no idea)

Also: if I get a physical memory dump complete message is the whole
party over and i simply have to accept it and reset to factory
settings as everything is gone anyway?

THANKS to anyone who got through reading all that is still conscious
and willing to answer!

It doesn't sound very good for recovering your system, I don't think.
It would appear that you have not done a backup of any kind, right? If
that's the case, based on what you've said here, it would appear that
you've lost the battle. When this is over, I would seriously recommend
you look into learning how to back up your data and preferable even the
operating system. But that's no help right now, I know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_&_recovery

Unless someone else has a better idea, it would appear that your only
option now is to rebuild everything from the ground up.
Toss the XP CD or whatever you have in the drive, and start right from
the beginning where you delete the existing partition/s and recreate
them. If you don't delete and recreate the partitions it's possible
that whatever is causing the errors and refusal to boot may still be
left in place to either prevent the reinstall of the OS, or to give it
problems after it's installed. The reason for that is that windows
creates many files on its own after the installation. The
delete/recreate partition/s makes sure all of those are removed
permanently.

If you have a recovery CD or an ondisk recovery feature, it might work
in place of doing everything manually. Usually I think it's ALT or
CTRL -F12 to start the auto-recovery. Check your documentation.

HTH,

Twayne



I think it was an Acer machine I had in recently that when it booted
asked for the operating system service pack 2 CD. It sounds very
similar to what you have, except it was a Vista machine. Howver, Vista
never got loaded and that message was presented prior to Vista's loading
in that case, so it may be applicable to other Acer operating systems
too.
 
NEEDSHELP said:
I recently ran the operating system reinstallation Cd for Windows XP Home
Edition (which I should NOT have done as I had the system factory
installed
and was happy with it ~ its a long stupid story and I swear my computer
asked
me to insert the operating system service pack 2) ) After a bit, the
installation stoppped with a Bad_Pool_Caller ~ I got the scary blue screen
~
the installation never finalized ~ threw me out ~ and now i can't get my
computer to start with anything but yet another attempt to finish this
installation process ~ it is a frustrating groundhog day loop ~ ~ i have
F8'ed it to the advanced startup screen and nothing works there ~ i cant
enter under safe mode ~ it will not go back to a time when all was well ~
i
cant get into the start mode feature (no control panel or uninstall or
remove
or system restore functions available) ~ i have F12'ed and F2'ed both to
no
avail as far as I can tell (interesting but not helpful, at least to me)
~

so, I guess my questions are: how (if possible) do i stop my computer's
obession with installation (which will never end well, in fact, as
evidenced,
will never end), do i have to go in and reset to the factory settings and
lose everything, or is there ANYTHING I can do to stop the madness and
return
to my computer as I knew it before this stupid boy-do-i-wish-i
had-just-left-my-darn-computer-alone incident?

At some point I did get thefollowing errors:
0x000000C2 (invalid software interrupt), 0x00000CD4 (some kind of pg
fault),
0x00340045 (i have no idea) and 0XE17A34C (again, no idea)

Also: if I get a physical memory dump complete message is the whole party
over and i simply have to accept it and reset to factory settings as
everything is gone anyway?

THANKS to anyone who got through reading all that is still conscious and
willing to answer!

I would suggest doing one thing to both save what's left of your data and
complete a new, clean install.

Get a new hard disk, remove your old one and set it aside; attach the new
drive and rerun the install. If you run into further install issues, you
have hardware problems.

Once the setup is complete, attach your old drive and simply copy whatever
data is left back over to the new install.

This is likely to be faster and considerably less aggravating than
attempting to sort out what on the disk is causing the failed install.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick said:
I would suggest doing one thing to both save what's left of your data
and complete a new, clean install.

Get a new hard disk, remove your old one and set it aside; attach the
new drive and rerun the install. If you run into further install
issues, you have hardware problems.

Once the setup is complete, attach your old drive and simply copy
whatever data is left back over to the new install.

This is likely to be faster and considerably less aggravating than
attempting to sort out what on the disk is causing the failed install.

HTH
-pk

Good catch Patrick; wish I'd said that.

Twayne
 
Hello Patrick (and all who replied to my post)

Thank you all so much for your prompt and thoughtful replies (I am always
pleasantly surprised and ever so grateful when people are courteous and
helpful). I am looking into all the suggestions (still in learning stage
mode). Just want to confirm that there is a possibility that my data is still
'living' in my computer. I did receive a physical memory dump complete
message at some point during the failed installation process.
 
Hello Mick (and all who replied to my post)

Thank you all so much for your prompt and thoughtful replies (I am always
pleasantly surprised and ever so grateful when people are courteous and
helpful). I am looking into all the suggestions (still in learning stage
mode). Just want to confirm that there is a possibility that my data is still
'living' in my computer. I did receive a physical memory dump complete
message at some point during the failed installation process.
 
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