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FDAEMON_E_PARTITIONDELETED
Filtered data cannot be stored because the target partition was deleted
FDAEMON_E_PARTITIONDELETED is HRESULT 0x80041683. Windows documents it as “Documents not stored in content index because partition has been deleted.”
Where the failure belongs
This result belongs to legacy Windows content indexing and is returned while committing extracted document data to the content-index partition selected for the work item. The exact condition is: the work item outlives catalog or partition deletion and no longer has a valid storage destination.
This value belongs to the legacy filter daemon and content-indexing pipeline. It identifies failure while extracting or committing indexed content, so query syntax changes do not repair it. Preserve the document, filter handler and catalog generation that owned the work item. Current IFilter documentation clarifies handler extraction contracts, while the daemon HRESULT remains tied to the legacy content-indexing pipeline and its catalog generation.
Likely causes
An unindexed document is only the outcome; it does not identify the handler, resource, partition generation, change list or word-list stage that failed.
Telemetry that matters
- Record partition identifier before releasing the relevant objects.
- Associate catalog generation with the exact UTC timestamp and correlation identifier.
- Compare failing and known-good values for work-item creation time under the same provider or handler version.
- Record the source and normalization path of deletion/rebuild event, not only its display form.
- Record document identity and type before releasing the relevant objects.
Hash document content while retaining file type, size, handler CLSID, extraction stage, block counts and catalog generation.
Verification workflow
- Capture partition identifier and catalog generation at the call boundary that returns this result.
- Confirm the operation reached committing extracted document data to the content-index partition selected for the work item with the intended work-item creation time.
- compare work-item generation and partition identifier with the current catalog topology and deletion events.
Run a copied document through the same filter version in an isolated queue and compare the exact extraction or commit stage with a known-good document type.
Safe remediation
Discard stale work and enqueue the document against the current catalog generation; never recreate a partition merely to satisfy an obsolete item. Retry only after resource pressure, handler behavior, work generation or catalog storage state changes and stale work is discarded.
Avoid the wrong conclusion
It does not prove that all documents or all filters are affected; preserve the triggering work item, handler and catalog generation before broad recovery.
How nearby codes differ
FDAEMON_E_CHANGEUPDATEFAILED concerns change-list persistence, not disappearance of the destination partition.
Developer and administrator guidance
Retain the document identity, filter CLSID/version/bitness, daemon event, catalog generation and retry or quarantine history. Before rebuilding catalogs or reregistering every filter, isolate the document, handler and failed work generation.
Worked example
A catalog is rebuilt while old filter work remains queued. Generation checks reject stale commits and the crawler schedules fresh items for the new partition.
Official Microsoft references
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