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0xC0000020: STATUS_INVALID_FILE_FOR_SECTION

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

0xC0000020 = 3,221,225,504 = -1073741792

NTSTATUS 0xC0000020

STATUS_INVALID_FILE_FOR_SECTION

{Bad File} The attributes of the specified mapping file for a section of memory cannot be read.

Becomes the Win32 error: 193ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility0 (0x000)
Code32 (0x0020)