Windows Installer Error Messages

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Windows Installer errors have an error code of 1000 or greater. The error codes numbered 1000 to 1999 are ship errors and must be authored into the Error table. The error codes numbered greater than 2000 are internal errors and do not have authored strings, but these can occur if the installation package has been incorrectly authored. For a list of reserved error codes, see Error table.

Note  If you are a user experiencing difficulty with your computer either during or after installing or uninstalling an application, you should contact customer support for the software you are trying to install or remove. If you feel you are in need of support for a Microsoft product, please go to our technical support site at support.microsoft.com.

Note  You can search for solutions to many of the messages in the following table in the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base (KB). Go to the Search the Support Knowledge Base page and use the tool provided there to perform a search for a specific Windows Installer error message. Select "Search Product: All Products" to perform a comprehensive search for the message. In the "For:" pane, enter a character string like the following, with quotes enclosing the words Windows Installer, the appropriate Message Code value from the following table, and the keyword "kberrmsg".

"Windows Installer" Message Code kberrmsg

Note  If you are viewing this documentation using the online MSDN library, you can also check the Community Content area at the bottom of this page to see whether any solutions for specific error messages have been contributed.

Developers of installation packages can also test the internal consistency of their packages by using Internal Consistency Evaluators. For more information, see Internal Consistency Evaluators - ICEs.

See also the Error Codes returned by the Windows Installer functions MsiExec.exe and InstMsi.exe.

Message Code	Message	Remarks
1101	Could not open file stream: [2]. System error: [3]
1301	Cannot create the file '[2]'. A directory with this name already exists.
1302	Please insert the disk: [2]
1303	The Installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: [2].
1304	Error writing to File: [2]
1305	Error reading from File: [2]; System error code: [3]