Vanishing Blu-Ray drive

[Deathray2K]

So a couple days ago I got a copy of Coraline in 3D, planning to watch it on my computer. I pop the disc into my blu-ray drive, close it, launch AnyDVD to avoid copy-protection problems, and it announces that it can't detect a DVD drive. I think that can't be right, but sure enough I check in Explorer and my drive's not showing up anymore. When I try to eject the disc, it won't open either. I try restarting, and when that doesn't help I go into UEFI. Even there the drive isn't showing up anymore. I try a few more things, double-checking cables etc. but nothing makes any difference.
Fine, I figure, maybe the drive just died. I get the disc out with a handy needle to open the tray, put it in my laptop, copy it to an ISO and transfer to my desktop. Now I try mounting it with Virtual CloneDrive, but it can't create a drive or mount anything!
Notably, I did update my bios shortly before all of this happened, if that might've done something odd.
Other than that, does anyone have any ideas about what could prevent any disc drives, real or virtual, from existing? Or is it two problems that I just have the misfortune of coming across at once? I'm really at a loss about what to do next.

I'm running Windows 8.1, have an ASRock Z77 Professional motherboard, and an LG CH10LS20 Blu-Ray drive.

 

[Bubbaleone]

I'd suggest you verify that UEFI/BIOS is configured for SATA/AHCI mode and be sure to disable the secure boot feature (it's probably been enabled after installing Windows 8.1) which when enabled won't allow any new hardware to be installed and is the most likely reason the drive isn't recognized. While you're inside the case, reseat the drives SATA cable connectors or try a different SATA cable also. Depending on the age of your player, LG has a firmware update for the CH10LS20 available here.

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[Squeebee]

I can confirm this behavior on my LG BD drive. I have been using MakeMKV to put my BD collection on a Hard-Drive for playback on my WD TV (no sticky fingers this way) and every disc worked fine until I got to Coraline 3D. Pop it in a pow, the drive is gone until I power cycle the computer and eject the disc the moment the drive has power and before it can read the disc again.

I even have two copies of the disc (it was in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart and I ended up getting it twice by mistake) and both killed the drive.