my computer

[CashMoney]

So I installed some virtual hardrive thing a while back to download a game off the internet, and ever since my iTunes will not let me burn a cd because it says burner drive or software not found. I need to pay someone to come fix this turd so anyone that wants to let me know.

Oh also it has daul hard drives but won't let me set it up as a RAID system

[76PowerWagon]

the harddrives need to be the same size and such to be set up as a raid..perhaps they aren't? or your computer is just picky. what os are you running?

[Reno Computer Repair]

The computer has to have a built-in or PCI Raid Controller to make a Raid Array, this is usually accessed within the BIOS screen before boot-up. If you have the PCI Raid card the it is configured right after the Bios by hitting cntrl-a or cntrl-s, depending on the manufacturer. The hard drives should be the same size and manufacturer.

The process on setting up the array is choosing the hard drives, initializing the drives in a Raid 0 or 1 configuration, then a format.

If the Raid is going to be your main C: drive, you will need to make a floppy disk with the Microsoft WHQL drivers, then when the XP cd started to boot (insert the floppy), hit F6. After a matter of minutes, XP will ask/display the location & drivers from the floppy, choose the diver, and let XP install the rest of the way.

If the Raid will be setup as a secondary drive, you will need to install the WHQL drivers when XP finds & attempts to install the new hardware (after installing the PCI card or configuring the card option in the system BIOS.

The Ipod burning issue is a tough one, because the virtual drive software might be the issues, or Itunes is missing a .dll file. Try downloading the latest verion of Itunes, install, and see if that cures the problem.

Also, go into my computer, double click on the CDROM drive and make sure there is no items waiting to be burned with the Windows CD burning wizard.

[CashMoney]

Hum I dunno if I should be messin wiht files like that, cause i'll probally have this thing catch on fire by the time i'm done...
it is runing Vista and its an HP that came with dual drives and I believe it had an option to set it up like that way back.

I checked in my computer and the drive didn't have anything waiting to be burnt...its strange it works with windows media player and everything else to burn with, just not iTunes, and iTunes has been upgraded a few times since i've had the prob

[Reno Computer Repair]

My Itunes had almost the same problem about a year ago, so I reformatted the beast. Now you got me thinking....Going to try to burn a CD tonight with it.

[CashMoney]

oh man reformatt now thats a scarry word... I know mine has something to do with this virtual drive I thing I installed on here to download a video game (fallout 2) off the internet

[Connect]

oh man reformatt now thats a scarry word... I know mine has something to do with this virtual drive I thing I installed on here to download a video game (fallout 2) off the internet

Reformatting is the best thing you can possibly do. I recommend it every 6 months, keeps the computer running like it was new.

[Reno Computer Repair]

Apple has a new Itunes relase from a couple days ago. Remove the virtual drive program completely. Install the new Itunes software. After that call Apple, checked mined last night and the Itunes release two weeks ago fixed my burning issue.

[owenst7]

Make sure that iTunes is trying to burn to the correct optical drive.

i.e.:
D: (may be your actual physical cd-rom/cd-rw/dvd-rw...)
E: (may be the virtual optical drive)

If iTunes is trying to use E: as a burner then there will be problems. The assigned drives are just an example, your computer could have them labeled as anything from D-ZZZ...

Like someone already said, you will need a RAID controller to set up a true RAID system. It isn't normally worth it unless you really need the HD performance (running images of games, video editing, etc.). My experience with them is if something dies like the controller, motherboard, the electronic gods get angry, etc., it will be a huge pain in the ass to retrieve your data from the disks without another RAID system to hook them up to.

[CashMoney]

Reformatting is the best thing you can possibly do. I recommend it every 6 months, keeps the computer running like it was new.

man isn't that a pain in the butt like having to reload all my programs and stuff? couldn't I lose all of my dirty material hehe

[CashMoney]

I don't know if it was an act of god or what but I got my iTunes to burn cd's again YA BABY :thumbsup: :rock::rock::rock: