HRESULT 0x800F0205 (SPAPI_E_INVALID_DEVINST

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The device instance ID is invalid. Use a valid Plug and Play instance identifier from the device tree.

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SPAPI_E_INVALID_DEVINST_NAME

SPAPI_E_INVALID_DEVINST_NAME means that the device instance name supplied to SetupAPI is not a valid Plug and Play device instance ID. A device instance ID is assigned by the PnP manager and identifies a particular devnode, so it must not be substituted with a friendly name or arbitrary hardware label.

What to check

Retrieve the instance ID from SetupAPI or Configuration Manager instead of composing it from display text.
Check encoding, string termination, and any path or escaping transformation performed before the API call.
Confirm that the code did not pass a hardware ID, interface path, or container ID in place of a device instance ID.

Microsoft: device instance IDs

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