What does HRESULT 0xC0AA02FF (E_IMAPI_RECORDER_INVALID_RESPONSE_FROM_DEVICE) mean?

 
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E_IMAPI_RECORDER_INVALID_RESPONSE_FROM_DEVICE

This HRESULT indicates that IMAPI received a response, but the device data did not match what the command handling expected. It therefore differs from command timeout and from a documented media-state result such as no media or write protection.

Capture the device and operation that produced invalid response data

  • Record recorder vendor/product/revision and the IMAPI method in progress.
  • Preserve preceding readiness, feature-page, mode-page, or media errors instead of logging only the final generic failure.
  • Reproduce with known compatible media and, if possible, another drive to separate device/firmware behavior from media-specific behavior.

Application code normally should not guess the malformed field or reinterpret the raw response unless it is implementing lower-level MMC diagnostics. At the IMAPI layer, the factual action is to retain device identity and operation context. Rebuilding the source image is unrelated when the failure occurs during capability queries before a write stream is used.

IMAPI return values · IDiscRecorder2 · Checking drive support


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