Question by Builtbybosche Ok: itunes 4280 and 4450 burn errors?
This is not a question its a solution. I hope this helps many people out there. I was sick of seeing picked answers for this that didn’t work for me. I hope my solution helps you: I’ve had both these irritatiing error messages. I have found a solution which I haven’t seen on any other forum. Initially I had the itunes 4280 burn error message, which mean’t that the burn process was cancelled and the cd-r was turned into a useless ‘coaster’ (It had the playlist but no actual tracks). I tried ALL the various solutions across all forums: 1. Uninstall drivers for my Matshita (In Sony Vaio laptop) cd/dvd drive and replace them. Eventually found out that these drivers are native to windows and its best for them to be installed by the OS on boot up. So uninstalled, and rebooted – no success still had 4028 error. 2. Tried all the various methods of reducing burn speed, switching off cd text etc etc and there were a lot of etc’s – no success. 3. I ignored trying different brand of blank cd-r as discussed by many people, sorry but that is just plain daft, besides i was using TDK as i always have for 10 years without any problems. 4. I even tried the ‘fix’ that came from itunes about altering the file in itunes – what a long winded piece of crap and bloody hard to do and guess what no success 5. I personally tried unistalling my Sony Vaio power management because this deactivates the cd/dvd drive when the battery is low – I knew i was clutching at straws with this one but tried it – again no success. At this point I should point out that I dont burn cd’s often, but have never had problems having always used itunes for cd burning, after all my music resides there and i found it so easy to burn. I though at this point though that I’d try other software and see what happened, so i tried burning with WMP, realplayer, and nero. All provided errors. It was at this point that i started to believe all those people on forums who have said that this error means your drive is failing. However I realised that my drive plays all cd’s and dvd’s fine and that it burned data discs fine with Alcohol 120%. For some reason I knew that a faulty drive was no the case. So, I tried unistalling all software that might affect the cd/dvd drive, so out went Alcohol 120% and Nero 8. This did seem to have an affect! Out went the 4028 errors hurrah, but in came the 4050 error, damn what is this new one. After much research I found out that again everyone had a million reasons similiar to the 4028 but none worked. So at this point I have wasted 10 cd-rs but wasn’t ready to give up. Right the big moment where I tell you MY FIX and fingers crossed it works for you. The only thing left I could think of was the fact I was using Windows 7, for me its been fine so far, but hey could it be the compatibility between the OS and Itunes (something that should not be the case considering the wealth of these 2 companies – i know stop laughing). Anyway here it is, in Windows 7 and Vista there is a compatibility mode, right click on the .exe icon of the program you want to run, in this case the itunes icon on my desktop and select properties > then > compatibility > and then you can select which older OS you want the software to be compatible with, I chose ‘Windows XP (service pack 2)’. Then i ran itunes, it came… Continue reading →