Article ID: 281317 - Last Review: March 19, 2012 - Revision: 2.0

"Stop error code 0x000000E3 (RESOURCE_NOT_OWNED)" error message

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SYMPTOMS

You may receive the following error message on a blue screen when the NTFS file system is stressed:
Stop 0x000000e3 (0x81d534c8, 0x8210fc20, 0x00000000, 0x00000002)
RESOURCE_NOT_OWNED
NOTE: The four parameters may differ significantly from the parameters in this error message, but the stop code is 0xE3.
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CAUSE

This problem can occur because there is a timing problem with the Ntfs.sys file, which may cause a resource to be released even though you did not acquire it.
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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260910  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack
The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later: 
   Date        Time    Version        Size     File name  Platform
   ---------------------------------------------------------------
   12/14/2000  04:39p  5.0.2195.2800  512,240  Ntfs.sys   Intel

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
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kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kberrmsg kbfile kbfix kbwin2000presp2fix KB281317
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