Microsoft KB Archive/279094

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Patching Transforms May Give 2250 Error Message

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Q279094

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows Installer, versions 1.1, 1.2

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SYMPTOMS
When you apply patches to a Windows Installer based setup program on Windows 2000, the patch application process may fail and you may receive the following error message:

Internal error 2250 - Cannot add a row that already exists

CAUSE
This is due to a bug in the Windows Installer engine.

Windows 2000
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

"Q260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack" The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Date        Version       Size        File name --  11/7/2000   1.11.2226.0   1,767,184   Msi.dll

Windows NT 4.0
If you have a computer running Windows NT 4.0, use the following location to download the correct hotfix:

"http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsp/Patch/1.11.2405/nt4/en-us/instmsi.exe"

Windows 95/98
If you have a computer running Windows 95 or Windows 98, use the following location to download the correct hotfix:

"http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98/Patch/1.11.2405/W9X/EN-US/instmsi.exe"

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be 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.

MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

"Q249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes"

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

"Q278078 OFF2000: Error 2250 or 2251 When You Update Administrative Installation to SP-2" Additional query words:

Keywords : kbAppSetup _IK kbMSI110fix kbWin2000PreSP2Fix kbWin2000SP2Fix

Issue type : kbbug

Technology : kbwin2000AdvServ kbwin2000AdvServSearch kbwin2000Serv kbwin2000ServSearch kbwin2000Search kbwin2000ProSearch kbwin2000Pro kbWinISearch kbWinAdvServSearch