XP Home to Pro Upgrade problem

[Jarrod]

I have a new DELL 8300 that came pre-installed with XP Home. After a
couple of weeks and no problems I decided to upgrade it to XP Pro. I
started the upgrade process and everything was going fine until 34
minutes left in the installing devices section then I get:

BAD_POOL_CALLER

0x000000C2 (0x00000007,0x00000CD4,0x00340045,0xE13FA7EC)

Now whenever I boot the machine it starts the upgrade process and
always runs into this error.

Questions:

How can I fix this to finish the upgrade?

Or at least stop the upgrade and get it back to where it was?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Jarrod

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Jarrod

See if the following link to MVP Jim Eshelman's web page helps:

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0xc2

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I have a new DELL 8300 that came pre-installed with XP Home. After a
| couple of weeks and no problems I decided to upgrade it to XP Pro. I
| started the upgrade process and everything was going fine until 34
| minutes left in the installing devices section then I get:
|
| BAD_POOL_CALLER
|
| 0x000000C2 (0x00000007,0x00000CD4,0x00340045,0xE13FA7EC)
|
| Now whenever I boot the machine it starts the upgrade process and
| always runs into this error.
|
| Questions:
|
| How can I fix this to finish the upgrade?
|
| Or at least stop the upgrade and get it back to where it was?
|
| Any help is greatly appreciated.
|
| Thank you,
|
| Jarrod