I’ve been having problems with the computer booting up properly. I noted that when I disconnected the drive the problem went away.
I uninstalled all software associated with the WD drive and started from scratch on reinstalling everything.
Now, for some odd reason, every time I unplug or plug the drive in Adobe Lightroom automatically starts up. This is not a fluke and is repeatable. This may be part of the boot problems my computer is having.