The operating system is able to detect them without any additional help of software from Western Digital Corporation. They never needed anything called 'WDDriveService'. I am using WD hard drives for over 10 years on Windows XP and Windows 7. The service provides discovery of WD Drives. One site said, 'The process is a service, and the service name is WDDriveService. Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K90 Note: Speccy says keyboard is Razer! Optical Drives – HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS30 – HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH16NS40 Graphics – BenQ XL2420TX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (ZOTAC International) 45 ☌ĩ314GB Western Digital WDC WD102KRYZ-01A5AB0 (SATA ) 48 ☌ –ĩ31GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB (SATA (SSD)) 32 ☌ –ħ452GB Seagate Backup+ Hub WH SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA) ) 49 ☌ I don’t think my WDDriveService.exe concern is likely based on my rig’s hardware, but I just have the feeling that if I don’t include it, somebody will say they need it, so here ‘tis -ĬPU – Intel Core i7 7700 3.60GHz 39 ☌ – Kaby Lake 14nm Technology I posted about this in the Western Digital forum, and didn't get what I need, so sending this out to StackExchange. I don’t need some program constantly looking for it and chatting about it over the Internet. The program is not visible.' My WD drive is my D: drive.

Since I generally leave my computer on 24/7(re-booting intermittently), it feels like WDDriveService.exe is waiting until I’m not watching before doing … whatever.

If I reboot the problem seems to go away, but then later it will be back. The excessive (seemingly) use of CPU time is intermittent. (See pic, below)Īpparently, I can just uninstall, but I’d like to know what’s going on here, and whether there’s some better alternative to uninstalling. There is no wddriveservice.exe in that folder.Īlso, wddriveservice.exe seems to be weirdly active with Internet access. malware can be named “wddriveservice.exe”) and I’m puzzled to see: I’ve read that “wddriveservice.exe” can be malware (I.e. I’m seeing this on Process Explorer (Sysinternals). WDDriveService.exe is working hard, eating CPU cycles and accessing the Internet for no apparent reason.

Should i install wd drive utilities