2011 iMac Optical Drive Disconnecting in Windows 8

I recently installed a copy of Windows 8 using the 14 March 2013 version of Bootcamp. Everything installed correctly, at least to the best of my knowledge. However, after two boots without any issues, my optical drive stopped reading disks. Power still goes to it, and It works perfectly in OSX. In Windows, however, it has ceased reading and ejecting any CD/DVD that I attempt to play, forcing me to restart into OSX to eject the disk. I went into Device Manager, and the driver appears to be intact, but shows the error:
Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)
To fix this problem, reconnect this hardware device to the computer.
Obviously this is not a Hardware issue, as I retain full functionality in OSX, and the Optical Drive was working the first two boots. I am at a loss how to proceed from here, though. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So I managed to at least making it work properly. by installing the power management driver- dependency package - lenovo settings win8 store app.... now my question is: I would like to keep this functionality of turning my optical drive on and off... but i dont really need all that software around.. which of these 3 can i uninstall and keep this functionality?

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