Scott35,
Thanks for the reply.
In reply to your questions:
Q1: I save to drive E here (it's a laptop).
Q2: The media is CD-R.
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Make sure not to use Audio type CD Media for Data file Archiving.
Is this some sort of a wind-up?.
Even I know that.
Q4: Yes, this is what I can't understand, I've put a LOT of small files onto the same disk and all of a sudden it gives up or can't be read.
Q5: Yes and it worked perfectly, all I had on the disks were PDF files.
Q6:No I do not reboot prior to Archiving, all I am simply doing is writing PDF files to a CD-R disk.
Q7:Yes and they worked OK, all of a sudden the drive would not read them.
Q8:I mentioned that in my original post.

Scott,
Sorry if I sound annoyed, believe me it isn't at you, but CD's are cheap enough, but why should we bother with them if they are going to do this?.
I was under the impression that CD's were used for long-term storage.
As far as the 3rd party thing goes, it's only Windows CD Wizard that writes to the actual disk here.
If this keeps up, this laptop is going Linux as well!!. [Linked Image]