NtstatushNOTFOUND

NtstatushNOTFOUND is not an officially documented NTSTATUS symbol in Windows. The name appears to be a misspelling or malformed variant of standard NTSTATUS constants that express a “not found” condition. In Windows development, the NTSTATUS family includes codes such as STATUS_NOT_FOUND and STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND, which are returned by the kernel and low‑level subsystems to indicate that a requested object could not be located.

NTSTATUS codes are 32-bit values used by the Windows NT family to convey the result of operations at kernel, driver, and subsystem levels. Not-found statuses commonly arise when an object with a particular name cannot be located by components such as the object manager, a filesystem driver, the registry, or other services. These codes inform callers that the requested resource does not exist in the expected namespace or location.

Handling not-found NTSTATUS values depends on the context and the API being used. In native code, a not-found status typically means the caller should treat the resource as missing. In user-mode code, Windows provides mappings between NTSTATUS values and Win32 error codes via translation routines such as RtlNtStatusToDosError. The resulting Win32 error is commonly ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND or ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND, depending on whether the missing object is a file, path, or other resource.

If you encounter a reference to NtstatushNOTFOUND, it is advisable to verify the actual constant in use and consult the relevant API documentation or headers. See also STATUS_NOT_FOUND, STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND, RtlNtStatusToDosError, and the general NTSTATUS documentation for context.