diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index e3f264538..eccec59e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This file documents all notable changes to https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy[IDE
 
 Release with new features and bugfixes:
 
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/916[#916]: download is missing status code error handling
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/757[#757]: Support to allow settings in code repository
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/826[#826]: Fix git settings check when settings folder is empty
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/894[#894]: Fix ide.bat printing for initialization and error output
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/io/FileAccessImpl.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/io/FileAccessImpl.java
index 2100ad327..30a16b46f 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/io/FileAccessImpl.java
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/io/FileAccessImpl.java
@@ -98,8 +98,11 @@ public void download(String url, Path target) {
         HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder().uri(URI.create(url)).GET().build();
         HttpClient client = createHttpClient(url);
         HttpResponse<InputStream> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofInputStream());
-        if (response.statusCode() == 200) {
+        int statusCode = response.statusCode();
+        if (statusCode == 200) {
           downloadFileWithProgressBar(url, target, response);
+        } else {
+          throw new IllegalStateException("Download failed with status code " + statusCode);
         }
       } else if (url.startsWith("ftp") || url.startsWith("sftp")) {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported download URL: " + url);