Burn failed (unknow error 261)

I tried to make a copy of a playlist on cd-rw. I got this message 'burn failed. unknown error 261'. Can anyone help me fix this problem?

Does the name of the playlist have any punctation in it? & or ? or @ signs? Try removing them and trying the CD burn again.

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The attempt to burn a disc failed, unknown error (261). I get this message every time I try to back up my music from itunes on to a CD. It doesn't matter if I try to back up all music or only music purchased from itunes. So far I have not been able to back up anything. Can someone please help me!!!! I have tried everything on the support website from apple, and nothing has worked. I am beginning to get very frustrated.
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+I know my computer is up to date on firmware, because I just bought this laptop 4 months ago - it's a brand new Dell Inspiron 1721.+
Actually, in that case I definitely think you should check your firmware. I just had a look at the 32-bit Vista downloads page at Dell for your Inspiron 1721, and there's firmware updates listed there for four different drive models, all dated within the last four months.
Head to the following Dell page and enter your model information to get to your Downloads page:
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The attempt to burn a disc failed, unknown error (261) Can't back up on CD

The attempt to burn a disc failed, unknown error (261). I get this message every time I try to back up my music from itunes on to a CD. It doesn't matter if I try to back up all music or only music purchased from itunes. So far I have not been able to back up anything. Can someone please help me!!!! I have tried everything on the support website from apple, and nothing has worked. I am beginning to get very frustrated.
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+I know my computer is up to date on firmware, because I just bought this laptop 4 months ago - it's a brand new Dell Inspiron 1721.+
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Burn failed/ unknown error/ (1771)?

I just attempted to make a copy of the contents in my smart playlist, so as to have a copy of all my music in case during upgrading to iTunes 6 anything happens. Im using DVD's to make Data discs and the first one burnt fine and then it told me to put in another DVD which I did, but then I got this 1771 error. I have tryed numerous times since to burn the songs that didnt make it onto the first disc, but keep getting the same error. I have tryed 3 brands of DVD's but I dont think that is the problem, as I have used the same brand for at least a year now. Please help!

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Attempt to burn failed - 4450 error

I see at least two other people have encountered this error. I put a new CD in and attempt to burn some purchased songs to it. The process starts, looks like it's working on the first song, and then I get a message that iTunes is cancelling the burn and the error:
"The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred. 4450."
When I check the CD, all the tracks are list as 1KB .cda files which is, of course, enough to make the CD useless.
I found a KB article at one point that suggested updating my CD drivers. I checked but there were no newer ones that what I have installed already. Has anyone solved this problem in any other way? My CD drive is listed as LG CD-RW 8080B when I look in device manager. I also just updated to the latest version of iTunes.
Compaq Presario - Pentium III Windows XP Pro

I'm having exactly the same problem. Get the message after it burns the 1st song. I've run the latest Itunes updates, tried to reinstall it, same problem. Gone through 10 blanks now, very frustrated, never had the trouble before. I've tried Maxell & TDK discs. Moved burn speed way down, still no deal. No updates are available for my driver either. Here is my diagnostic. I keep seeing others with this problem, but no real solutions yet, argh.
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 4300
iTunes 6.0.3.5
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: MxlW2k (1.0.1.101), Cdr4_xp (6.2.0.132),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3),
Video Driver: 16MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra\1002-5446-22
IDE\DiskWDCWD200EB-75CSF0_____________________04.01B04, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskST3160023A________________, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomNEC_NR-7900A___________________________1.08___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
If you have multiple drives on the same IDE or SCSI bus, these drives may interfere with each other.
Some computers need an update to the ATA or IDE bus driver, or Intel chipset. If iTunes has problems recognizing CDs or hanging or crashing while importing or burning CDs, check the support site for the manufacturer of your computer or motherboard.
Current user is administrator.
D: _NEC NR-7900A, Rev 1.08
Audio CD in drive.
Found 11 songs on CD, playing time 34:04 on Audio CD.
Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Track 2, start time 04:35:33
Track 3, start time 08:15:43
Track 4, start time 11:23:64
Track 5, start time 14:46:11
Track 6, start time 17:35:63
Track 7, start time 20:20:67
Track 8, start time 21:55:06
Track 9, start time 26:27:52
Track 10, start time 28:46:42
Track 11, start time 31:31:32
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 4 8 16 20 24.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 4 8 16 20.
The last failed audio CD burn had error code 4450(0x00001162). It happened on drive D: _NEC NR-7900A on CDR media at speed 4X.

CD Burn Fail. Error 4280

The attempt to burn a disk failed. An unknown error occured. 4280
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Maybe I did figure it out afterall - I tried removing a couple tracks from my playlist - ones I had burned to disc earlier - and the burn went through without a hitch.
Apparently now you can burn an iTune only once - unless you pay the extra 30 cents or so per song - for unlimited burn rights.

Burning Fail, Unknown Error 4550

Hi,
I've wasted about 4 CDs today trying to back up my iTunes purchases I have never had this problem burning before, I have tried memorex discs and Philips CD/R. The disc begins to burn, saves the track information (title, length etc) then I get a message saying the burn has failed and it will take a few minutes to stop the process.
Any idea what's going on?

+I have tried memorex discs and Philips CD/R.+
After wasting a bunch of brand-name discs like you did years ago, I decided to quit iTunes for burning any backups. Esepcially after I tried to test my backup strategy, and none of the iTunes discs would restore properly.
Thank goodness I backed up my important files like normal. Through Windows Exploder.

Optical Drive Burn Fails Error 4200

I have a new optical DVD writer (also burns cds, etc.) and if I use Nero software to burn .mp3 files or .acc files no problem. But when I try to burn a cd from within iTunes (mp4) it says burn failed - unknown error 4200.
I have removed and reinstalled iTunes, have updated the firmware on the new drive, have tried burning at a slower rate. I have spoken with both iTunes and the manufacturer with no resolution. It is a Samsung SATA optical drive.
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Petshows

Thank you for your help!
At one point in the last few days i did run out of disk space on one drive, but i think i had 5Gig free on the short drive when i was trying it earlier, and i have upped that to 30.
My spindled HP DV-16Xs worked on the drive i had before pretty darn well.. I've tried a bunch of unlabeled ones, i've also tried burning at 1x, and i went out and bought some jewel cased verbatim dvd-r 16Xs, same problem.
I will take one more shot at finding the best media using that website, get some 8Xs if i can find them, before hauling it into apple.
without the dvd burner it's hard to backup very well, I was planning to get a external hard drive next month.

The Attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknow error occurred (4000)

Itunes will start to burn and then stop and state that
"the Attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknow error occurred (4000)"
while burning a data Dvd back up
Here is the Run CD Diag
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
MSI MS-6712
iTunes 6.0.4.2
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: Cdr4_xp (7.5.0.50),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3), Cdralw2k (7.5.0.50),
Video Driver: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440\GeForce4 MX 440
IDE\DiskWDCWD800JB-00ETA0_____________________77.07W77, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomJLMSXJ-HD166S__________________________DS1A___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomLITE-ONDVDRW_SOHW-1633S________________BS0K___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
If you have multiple drives on the same IDE or SCSI bus, these drives may interfere with each other.
Some computers need an update to the ATA or IDE bus driver, or Intel chipset. If iTunes has problems recognizing CDs or hanging or crashing while importing or burning CDs, check the support site for the manufacturer of your computer or motherboard.
Current user is administrator.
D: JLMS XJ-HD166S, Rev DS1A
Drive is empty.
E: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S, Rev BS0K
Audio CD in drive.
Found 14 songs on CD, playing time 56:45 on Audio CD.
Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Track 2, start time 06:28:04
Track 3, start time 09:32:06
Track 4, start time 13:04:38
Track 5, start time 16:57:06
Track 6, start time 20:43:48
Track 7, start time 23:48:03
Track 8, start time 29:28:09
Track 9, start time 34:28:49
Track 10, start time 37:45:69
Track 11, start time 41:23:33
Track 12, start time 44:45:19
Track 13, start time 47:53:52
Track 14, start time 51:19:58
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 8 16 24 32 40 48.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 8.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 8 16 24 32 40 48.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 8 16 24 32 40 48.
The last failed data CD or DVD burn had error code 4000(0x00000fa0). It happened on drive E: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S on DVD+R media at speed 16X.
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Clone Windows XP

try this...
This is how I managed to fix the problem...and I hope this helps others in the similar situation.
I tried with another program..latest version of Nero, and this was also stopping at the 'initialising' stage. I was now lost! I thought the last resort is to give Evesham (My PC manufacturer) a buzz. They were very helpfull. Basically go into 'Control Panel', 'System', and click on the Hardware tab, then 'Device Manager'. Uninstall everything in the DVD/CDRom Drives. Then uninstall everything under the catagory IDE ATA/Atapi disk controllers. This is where my problem was, as I only had one IDE channel here. You should have 4 or 5! Reboot your machine, and everything will automatically re-load. I tried burning using Nero and it worked. Then the big test was iTunes. It worked 1st time!
I asked why the IDE channels have dissappearred, and he said sometimes uninstalling Programmes occasionally removes them.
I hope this will help others who are having problems to burn stuff on iTunes.

What does error 261 mean and why does iTunes backup fail in version 7.3?

I made a backup of my purchased music (all single items) in the previous version of iTunes for Windows. Now with version 7.3 for Windows I keep getting error 261:
After inserting a blank CDRW, CDR, or DVD+RW (all previously without any problems in older iTunes versions) and selecting File -> Back Up to Disc, iTunes says: "Checking items for backup..." after which it shortly says: "Burning Disc... Initializing"
To abrubtly end with: The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred (261).
I used various burning options, including AUDIO and DATA CD, to no avail. The differences with my previous backup are:
- more tracks;
- complete albums;
- DRM free items (upgraded);
- audiobooks.
Although my main iPod contains the complete library (luckily it is small), I can use it for backup purposes, but after re-installing Windows and iTunes, my iPod would not be recognised and my data would be lost.
Shuttle SB83G5 Windows XP Pro

You are not doing anything wrong. This and many other errors have cropped up since version 7.3 was released.
For now, the solution is to go back to version 7.2 where everything worked correctly.
E-mail me at [email protected] and I will gladly share the steps I took with you. Apple does not allow posting a link to a site that they do not operate and therefore I can only help you privately.
My Itunes is working perfectly again with version 7.2
Jeff

I got an error message while burning a cd in itunes - "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error. What is that and how can i fix it?t

I got an error message while burning a CD in iTunes - "the attempt to burn a disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error." What does this mean and how do I fix it?

The disk you are using probably has a defect, not uncommon on consumer grade disks. Try another disk or better yet another disk from a different manufacturer or at least a different batch.

The Attempt to burn disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error.

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I am getting an error every time i try to burn a playlist. The error reads The Attempt to burn disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error.

Can somebody help me. I used to be able to burn with no problem. But now while finishing discs, I get the following message.
The Attempt to burn disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error.

Try a different brand of discs. Try restarting your computer.

TS1436 I received this message twice on 2 new & separate attempts to burn a playlist to a NEW cd: "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error." What is a "medium write error" and how can I deal with this?

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Hello Pat,
The following article provides troublehsooting steps and information that can help get iTunes burning discs again.
Can't burn a CD in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1436
Cheers,
Allen

HT1751 On an old Mac I got this message while trying to burn a CD for the car: "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The burn failed because of a medium write error." What does this mean? And how do I work around it?

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