NTSTATUS 0xC000000F (STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE): meaning and diagnosis

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Description: The requested file does not exist at the resolved file-system location.

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STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE	STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST

STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE

The final file was absent after lookup reached the file-system location

STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE is a file-system absence result. It is narrower than an invalid object name and different from a missing intermediate path component: the request reached the relevant file-system location, but the named file was not present there.

The same status can be misleading when a reparse point, mount point, or redirector changed the location that was actually checked. A diagnostic that logs only the caller's input path may send investigation to the wrong volume or server.

Confirm the resolved target

Record the creation disposition and whether the caller expected an existing file or was allowed to create one.
Log the final resolved path/volume after reparse and mount-point processing where possible.
Compare with STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND and STATUS_REPARSE_POINT_NOT_RESOLVED; both fail earlier in resolution.
On a remote file system, verify the server-side namespace and any case, stream, or share semantics relevant to the request.

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