Have lost access to my cd drive sh-16dr. It disappeared and some of the help lines said un-install and then restart and the drive would re-install. That worked once, then never again. It seems to be acommon problem with lots of worthless commentators who often quote solutions from their knowledge of other operating systems, SP Windows 7, Vista etc.
This Windows has turned out to be a pile of junk. Hour after endless hours are spent in trying to get the system operating like a normal desktop.
If you try to operate the driver, it tells you that it can't locate the device etc.
I juist want to get the CD player working and about ready to throw the whole thing in to the junk.
I have never seen a regedit soulution that worked like the solutions that have been offered. There must be a better way.
I haven't looked into the bias yet. Don't even know if F8 on start-up will even work in 8.1 but will be trying to look at it.
You can tell in the forms that it is a common major problem but you won't find a workable solution, just comments.