T420 Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Cannot Play DVD disc

My laptop is T420 (i7-2640M CPU 2.80GHz, RAM 4GB, 64 bit), and recently upgrade to Windows 8.1 Professional OS
However, I found my DVD driver cannot play any DVD disc, and I try to play other DVD disc also fail.
The DVD driver is updated. When I insert DVD, it indicates the disc is empty, but actually it is a normal DVD.
Can someone help advise what is the reason for that? Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Did we followed this article to update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8?
Update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8
For can't find the update in the store, have you checked this article?
Why can't I find the update in the Store?
Please take a check in the question You might be running an edition of Windows 8 that doesn’t support updating from the Store
in the above article for the editions that won't be able to update from Windows store.
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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