Windows 8 will only recognize the Blu Ray ROM, if the install disk is present at boot time
- by aceinthehole
If I have the install disk in the blu ray ROM drive at boot time and subsequently remove the disk and replace it with blu ray media everything functions as I'd expect.
However, if I have no media present, or another disk in the drive at boot time, then windows 8 does not seem to recognize that the blu ray player is even present in the computer.
It is not present in the 'my computer' screen, device manager does not show the player, and scanning for new hardware yields nothing.
It seems that the driver is installed and working as expect, what is it about having the windows 8 install disk in the drive or not that would cause this kind of behavior?