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Well it appears that iTunes still doesn’t work with Vista (32bit or 64bit) if you have an Intel RAID’ed setup. The HDs go nuts so badly that the machine becomes un-usable. Over the past months (read probably a year), I’ve been fiddling and trying to find a solution to this but never get anywhere.

Have seen a few other people moan about the same problem but it appears that it’s still not sorted. Might even bother to log a fault with Apple about this :(.

iTunes 7.2 has got to be one of the quickest try outs on a PC I’ve ever done. I think it’s safe to say it was on here for about 2 mins tops.

** FIX in COMMENTS **

Weridly I’ve not spotted this on the net anywhere but I think there’s a fault with the NTFS compression or something.
For the last few weeks I’ve had Windows Backup writing a backup file to a 500Gb USB HD connected to the same server. It’s been backing up the server into 50Gb - 70Gb files without a problem until I compressed the DIR that it writes to. Then it’s been moaning that the disks where corrupt and loads of other daft errors. Game up trying to get to the bottom of it but after turning off the compression again everything is back to working again !

So it seems that there’s something funny when compressing a 50Gb file or more live onto HD drive. Not sure if it’s just over USB but it’s working now. Interesting though

? NTFS 50Gb Compression Limit ?