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0x80070246: ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER (Win32 582)

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x80070246 = 2,147,942,982 = -2147024314

HRESULT 0x80070246

No name of its own: it's the Win32 error below, as an HRESULT.

Wraps the Win32 error: 582ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER: An illegal character was encountered. For a multi-byte character set this includes a lead byte without a succeeding trail byte. For the Unicode character set this includes the characters 0xFFFF and 0xFFFE.

Severity (bit 31)1: failure
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
NTSTATUS inside (bit 28)0
Facility7 (0x007) WIN32
Code582 (0x0246)