HRESULT 0xC0AA0003 (E_IMAPI_RECORDER

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Description: the IMAPI format object has no current disc recorder selected.

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E_IMAPI_RECORDER_REQUIRED

E_IMAPI_RECORDER_REQUIRED is an object-configuration error. IMAPI represents the physical optical device with IDiscRecorder2, but data writers and erasers are separate format objects. A recorder must be initialized and attached to the format object before recorder-dependent properties or operations can succeed.

Verify recorder initialization and attachment order

Enumerate device identifiers, initialize IDiscRecorder2 with the selected identifier, and keep that COM object alive.
Assign the recorder to the chosen format writer or eraser before querying media-dependent state.
After device removal or recorder replacement, rebuild the association instead of reusing stale configuration.

This code is not equivalent to “no media”. A valid recorder can be selected with an empty tray, which produces media-specific results later. Here the format object lacks the recorder dependency itself. Log the recorder identifier and the point where put_Recorder is called; changing disc media cannot fix a missing object association.

IDiscRecorder2 · InitializeDiscRecorder · IDiscFormat2

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