What does HRESULT 0x80AA0904 (E_IMAPI_ERASE_MEDIA_IS_NOT_ERASABLE) mean?

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Description: the inserted optical medium does not advertise an erasable state for the erase operation.

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E_IMAPI_ERASE_MEDIA_IS_NOT_ERASABLE

E_IMAPI_ERASE_MEDIA_IS_NOT_ERASABLE means the drive reported that the current medium cannot be erased. This should be distinguished from an unsupported recorder or unsupported media-format combination: the device was queried, but the medium itself is not erasable in its current reported state.

Verify the physical media type before starting erase

Record CurrentPhysicalMediaType and the result of IsCurrentMediaSupported.
Confirm that the user inserted rewritable/erasable media appropriate for the drive rather than write-once media.
Do not loop on EraseMedia; changing FullErase does not make non-erasable media erasable.

FullErase chooses between a whole-medium overwrite and a faster erase of directory tracks; it does not change media capabilities. If the UI offers an Erase action, gate that action on format/media support and show the detected physical media type. That prevents a device-side capability result from being misreported as a permissions or filesystem error.

IDiscFormat2Erase · FullErase · IsCurrentMediaSupported

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