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This document is intended to be a comprehensive error message manual for Microsoft NT and 2000, the equivelent of Oracle's error message manual. There is no such document at Microsoft, nor (as best as I can tell, anywhere else on the net). This is a work in progress, and I have documented solutions to those errors which I have encountered. If anyone has a solution to an error that is not in this document, please email it to support@dbinternals.com.

Error Number	Message
-8	Compression algorithm not recognized.
-7	Input parameter out of acceptable range.
-6	Bad global handle.
-5	Insufficient memory for LZFile structure.
-4	Out of space for output file.
-3	Corrupt compressed file format.
-2	Invalid output handle.
-1	Invalid input handle.
1L	The function is incorrect.
2L	The system cannot find the file specified.
3L	The system cannot find the specified path.
4L	The system cannot open the file.
5L	Access is denied.
6L	The internal file identifier is incorrect.
7L	The storage control blocks were destroyed.
8L	Not enough storage is available to process this command.
9L	The storage control block address is invalid.
10L	The environment is incorrect.
11L	An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
12L	The access code is invalid.
13L	The data is invalid.
14L	Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.
15L	The system cannot find the specified drive.
16L	The directory cannot be removed.
17L	The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive.
18L	There are no more files.
19L	The media is write protected.
20L	The system cannot find the specified device.
21L	The drive is not ready.
22L	The device does not recognize the command.
23L	Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
24L	The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect.
25L	The drive cannot locate a specific area or track on the disk.
26L	The specified disk cannot be accessed.
27L	The drive cannot find the requested sector.
28L	The printer is out of paper.
29L	The system cannot write to the specified device.
30L	The system cannot read from the specified device.
31L	A device attached to the system is not functioning.
32L	The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
33L	The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.
34L	The wrong disk is in the drive. Insert %2 (Volume Serial Number: %3) into drive %1.
36L	Too many files opened for sharing.
38L	Reached End Of File.
39L	The disk is full.
50L	The network request is not supported.
51L	The remote computer is not available.
52L	A duplicate name exists on the network.
53L	The network path was not found.
54L	The network is busy.
55L	The specified network resource is no longer available.
56L	The network BIOS command limit has been reached.
57L	A network adapter hardware error occurred.
58L	The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.
59L	An unexpected network error occurred.
60L	The remote adapter is not compatible.
61L	The printer queue is full.
62L	Space to store the file waiting to be printed is not available on the server.
63L	File waiting to be printed was deleted.
64L	The specified network name is no longer available.
65L	Network access is denied.
66L	The network resource type is incorrect.
67L	The network name cannot be found.
68L	The name limit for the local computer network adapter card exceeded.
69L	The network BIOS session limit exceeded.
70L	The remote server is paused or is in the process of being started.
71L	The network request was not accepted.
72L	The specified printer or disk device has been paused.
80L	The file exists.
82L	The directory or file cannot be created.
83L	Fail on INT 24.
84L	Storage to process this request is not available.
85L	The local device name is already in use.
86L	The specified network password is incorrect.
87L	The parameter is incorrect.
88L	A write fault occurred on the network.
89L	The system cannot start another process at this time.
100L	Cannot create another system semaphore.
101L	The exclusive semaphore is owned by another process.
102L	The semaphore is set and cannot be closed.
103L	The semaphore cannot be set again.
104L	Cannot request exclusive semaphores at interrupt time.
105L	The previous ownership of this semaphore has ended.
106L	Insert the disk for drive 1.
107L	Program stopped because alternate disk was not inserted.
108L	The disk is in use or locked by another process.
109L	The pipe was ended.
110L	The system cannot open the specified device or file.
111L	The file name is too long.
112L	There is not enough space on the disk.
113L	No more internal file identifiers available.
114L	The target internal file identifier is incorrect.
117L	The IOCTL call made by the application program is incorrect.
118L	The verify-on-write switch parameter value is incorrect.
119L	The system does not support the requested command.
120L	The Application Program Interface (API) entered will only work in Windows/NT mode.
121L	The semaphore timeout period has expired.
122L	The data area passed to a system call is too small.
123L	The file name, directory name, or volume label is syntactically incorrect.
124L	The system call level is incorrect.
125L	The disk has no volume label.
126L	The specified module cannot be found.
127L	The specified procedure could not be found.
128L	There are no child processes to wait for.
129L	The %1 application cannot be run in Windows mode.
130L	Attempt to use a file handle to an open disk partition for an operation other than raw disk I/O.
131L	An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.
132L	The file pointer cannot be set on the specified device or file.
133L	A JOIN or SUBST command cannot be used for a drive that contains previously joined drives.
134L	An attempt was made to use a JOIN or SUBST command on a drive that is already joined.
135L	An attempt was made to use a JOIN or SUBST command on a drive already substituted.
136L	The system attempted to delete the JOIN of a drive not previously joined.
137L	The system attempted to delete the substitution of a drive not previously substituted.
138L	The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a joined drive.
139L	The system attempted to substitute a drive to a directory on a substituted drive.
140L	The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a substituted drive.
141L	The system attempted to SUBST a drive to a directory on a joined drive.
142L	The system cannot perform a JOIN or SUBST at this time.
143L	The system cannot join or substitute a drive to or for a directory on the same drive.
144L	The directory is not a subdirectory of the root directory.
145L	The directory is not empty.
146L	The path specified is being used in a substitute.
147L	Not enough resources are available to process this command.
148L	The specified path cannot be used at this time.
149L	An attempt was made to join or substitute a drive for which a directory on the drive is the target of a previous substitute.
150L	System trace information not specified in your CONFIG.SYS file, or tracing is not allowed.
151L	The number of specified semaphore events is incorrect.
152L	Too many semaphores are already set.
153L	The list is not correct.
154L	The volume label entered exceeds the 11 character limit. The first 11 characters were written to disk. Any characters that exceeded the 11 character limit were automatically deleted.
155L	Cannot create another thread.
156L	The recipient process has refused the signal.
157L	The segment is already discarded and cannot be locked.
158L	The segment is already unlocked.
159L	The address for the thread ID is incorrect.
160L	The argument string passed to DosExecPgm is incorrect.
161L	The specified path name is invalid.
162L	A signal is already pending.
164L	No more threads can be created in the system.
167L	Attempt to lock a region of a file failed.
170L	The requested resource is in use.
173L	A lock request was not outstanding for the supplied cancel region.
174L	The file system does not support atomic changing of the lock type.
180L	The system detected a segment number that is incorrect.
182L	The operating system cannot run %1.
183L	Attempt to create file that already exists.
186L	The flag passed is incorrect.
187L	The specified system semaphore name was not found.
188L	The operating system cannot run %1.
189L	The operating system cannot run %1.
190L	The operating system cannot run %1.
191L	%1 cannot be run in Windows/NT mode.
192L	The operating system cannot run %1.
193L	%1 is not a valid Windows- based application.
194L	The operating system cannot run %1.
195L	The operating system cannot run %1.
196L	The operating system cannot run this application program.
197L	The operating system is not presently configured to run this application.
198L	The operating system cannot run %1.
199L	The operating system cannot run this application program.
200L	The code segment cannot be greater than or equal to 64KB.
201L	The operating system cannot run %1.
202L	The operating system cannot run %1.
203L	The system could not find the environment option entered.
205L	No process in the command subtree has a signal handler.
206L	The file name or extension is too long.
207L	The ring 2 stack is in use.
208L	The global filename characters are entered incorrectly, or too many global filename characters are specified.
209L	The signal being posted is incorrect.
210L	The signal handler cannot be set.
212L	The segment is locked and cannot be reallocated.
214L	Too many dynamic link modules are attached to this program or dynamic link module.
215L	Can't nest calls to LoadModule.
230L	The pipe state is invalid.
231L	All pipe instances busy.
232L	Pipe close in progress.
233L	No process on other end of pipe.
234L	More data is available.
240L	The session was canceled.
254L	The specified EA name is invalid.
255L	The EAs are inconsistent.
259L	No more data is available.
266L	The Copy API cannot be used.
267L	The directory name is invalid.
275L	The EAs did not fit in the buffer.
276L	The EA file on the mounted file system is damaged.
277L	The EA table in the EA file on the mounted file system is full.
278L	The specified EA handle is invalid.
282L	The mounted file system does not support extended attributes.
288L	Attempt to release mutex not owned by caller.
298L	Too many posts made to a semaphore.
299L	Only part of a Read/WriteProcessMemory request was completed.
317L	The system cannot find message for message number 0x%1 in message file for %2.
487L	Attempt to access invalid address.
534L	Arithmetic result exceeded 32- bits.
535L	There is a process on other end of the pipe.
536L	Waiting for a process to open the other end of the pipe.
994L	Access to the EA is denied.
995L	The I/O operation was aborted due to either thread exit or application request.
996L	Overlapped IO event not in signaled state.
997L	Overlapped IO operation in progress.
998L	Invalid access to memory location.
999L	Error accessing paging file.
1001L	Recursion too deep, stack overflowed.
1002L	Window can't handle sent message.
1003L	Cannot complete function for some reason.
1004L	The flags are invalid.
1005L	The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and the volume is not damaged.
1006L	The volume for a file was externally altered and the opened file is no longer valid.
1007L	The requested operation cannot be performed in full-screen mode.
1008L	An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist.
1009L	The configuration registry database is damaged.
1010L	The configuration registry key is invalid.
1011L	The configuration registry key cannot be opened.
1012L	The configuration registry key cannot be read.
1013L	The configuration registry key cannot be written.
1014L	One of the files containing the system's registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery succeeded.
1016L	The registry initiated an I/O operation that had an unrecoverable failure. The registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the registry.
1017L	The system attempted to load or restore a file into the registry, and the specified file is not in the format of a registry file.
1018L	Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion.
1019L	System could not allocate required space in a registry log.
1020L	An attempt was made to create a symbolic link in a registry key that already has subkeys or values.
1021L	An attempt was made to create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key.
1022L	This indicates that a notify change request is being completed and the information is not being returned in the caller's buffer. The caller now needs to enumerate the files to find the changes.
1051L	A stop control has been sent to a service which other running services are dependent on.
1052L	The requested control is not valid for this service.
1053L	The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
1054L	A thread could not be created for the service.
1055L	The service database is locked.
1056L	An instance of the service is already running.
1057L	The account name is invalid or does not exist.
1058L	The specified service is disabled and cannot be started.
1059L	Circular service dependency was specified.
1060L	The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
1061L	The service cannot accept control messages at this time.
1062L	The service has not been started.
1063L	The service process could not connect to the service controller.
1064L	An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request.
1065L	The database specified does not exist.
1066L	The service has returned a service-specific error code.
1067L	The process terminated unexpectedly.
1068L	The dependency service or group failed to start.
1069L	The service did not start due to a logon failure.
1070L	After starting, the service hung in a start-pending state.
1071L	The specified service database lock is invalid.
1072L	The specified service has been marked for deletion.
1073L	The specified service already exists.
1074L	The system is currently running with the last-known- good configuration.
1075L	The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion.
1076L	The current boot has already been accepted for use as the last-known-good control set.
1077L	No attempts to start the service have been made since the last boot.
1078L	The name is already in use as either a service name or a service display name.
1079L	The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.
1100L	The physical end of the tape has been reached.
1101L	A tape access reached a filemark.
1102L	The beginning of the tape or partition was encountered.
1103L	A tape access reached a setmark.
1104L	During a tape access, the end of the data marker was reached.
1105L	Tape could not be partitioned.
1106L	When accessing a new tape of a multivolume partition, the current block size is incorrect.
1107L	Tape partition information could not be found when loading a tape.
1108L	Attempt to lock the eject media mechanism failed.
1109L	Unload media failed.
1110L	Media in drive may have changed.
1111L	The I/O bus was reset.
1112L	Tape query failed because of no media in drive.
1113L	No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page.
1114L	A DLL initialization routine failed.
1115L	A system shutdown is in progress.
1116L	An attempt to abort the shutdown of the system failed because no shutdown was in progress.
1117L	The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
1118L	No serial device was successfully initialized. The serial driver will unload.
1119L	Unable to open a device that was sharing an interrupt request (IRQ) with other devices. At least one other device that uses that IRQ was already opened.
1120L	A serial I/O operation was completed by another write to the serial port. (The IOCTL_SERIAL_XOFF_COUNTER reached zero.)
1121L	A serial I/O operation completed because the time-out period expired. (The IOCTL_SERIAL_XOFF_COUNTER did not reach zero.)
1122L	No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk.
1123L	Mismatch between the floppy disk sector ID field and the floppy disk controller track address.
1124L	The floppy disk controller reported an error that is not recognized by the floppy disk driver.
1125L	The floppy disk controller returned inconsistent results in its registers.
1126L	While accessing the hard disk, a recalibrate operation failed, even after retries.
1127L	While accessing the hard disk, a disk operation failed even after retries.
1128L	While accessing the hard disk, a disk controller reset was needed, but even that failed.
1129L	Physical end of tape encountered.
1130L	Not enough server storage is available to process this command.
1131L	A potential deadlock condition has been detected.
1132L	The base address or the file offset specified does not have the proper alignment.
1140L	An attempt to change the system power state was vetoed by another application or driver.
1141L	The system BIOS failed an attempt to change the system power state.
1142L	An attempt was made to create more links on a file than the file system supports.
1150L	The specified program requires a newer version of Windows.
1151L	The specified program is not a Windows or MS-DOS program.
1152L	Cannot start more than one instance of the specified program.
1153L	The specified program was written for an older version of Windows.
1154L	One of the library files needed to run this application is damaged.
1155L	No application is associated with the specified file for this operation.
1156L	An error occurred in sending the command to the application.
1157L	One of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found.
1200L	The specified device name is invalid.
1201L	The device is not currently connected but is a remembered connection.
1202L	An attempt was made to remember a device that was previously remembered.
1203L	No network provider accepted the given network path.
1204L	The specified network provider name is invalid.
1205L	Unable to open the network connection profile.
1206L	The network connection profile is damaged.
1207L	Cannot enumerate a non- container.
1208L	An extended error has occurred.
1209L	The format of the specified group name is invalid.
1210L	The format of the specified computer name is invalid.
1211L	The format of the specified event name is invalid.
1212L	The format of the specified domain name is invalid.
1213L	The format of the specified service name is invalid.
1214L	The format of the specified network name is invalid.
1215L	The format of the specified share name is invalid.
1216L	The format of the specified password is invalid.
1217L	The format of the specified message name is invalid.
1218L	The format of the specified message destination is invalid.
1219L	The credentials supplied conflict with an existing set of credentials.
1220L	An attempt was made to establish a session to a LAN Manager server, but there are already too many sessions established to that server.
1221L	The workgroup or domain name is already in use by another computer on the network.
1222L	The network is not present or not started.
1223L	The operation was cancelled by the user.
1224L	The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user mapped section open.
1225L	The remote system refused the network connection.
1226L	The network connection was gracefully closed.
1227L	The network transport endpoint already has an address associated with it.
1228L	An address has not yet been associated with the network endpoint.
1229L	An operation was attempted on a non-existent network connection.
1230L	An invalid operation was attempted on an active network connection.
1231L	The remote network is not reachable by the transport.
1232L	The remote system is not reachable by the transport.
1233L	The remote system does not support the transport protocol.
1234L	No service is operating at the destination network endpoint on the remote system.
1235L	The request was aborted.
1236L	The network connection was aborted by the local system.
1237L	The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed.
1238L	A connection to the server could not be made because the limit on the number of concurrent connections for this account has been reached.
1239L	Attempting to login during an unauthorized time of day for this account.
1240L	The account is not authorized to login from this station.
1241L	The network address could not be used for the operation requested.
1242L	The service is already registered.
1243L	The specified service does not exist.
1244L	The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not been authenticated.
1245L	The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not logged on to the network.
1246L	Return that wants caller to continue with work in progress.
1247L	An attempt was made to perform an initialization operation when initialization has already been completed.