I was looking under the ‘Disk drives’ section in Windows Device Manager, rather than the ‘WD Drive Management devices’ section – which is where it is.
Although, as the drivers are automatically pushed to the device via Windows Update when the drive is plugged into the machine, if you uninstall the ‘WD SES Device’ driver in Windows Device Manager, it will reinstall itself again as soon as the drive is plugged back in or the machine is restarted.
However, if it’s just a single machine, as a workaround it’s possible to uninstall the ‘WD SES Device’ driver and enable Memory Integrity before the driver has a chance to reinstall itself. I.E. Plug the Western Digital external harddrive into a USB port and perform the following steps without unplugging the drive:
However, the original post still stands: This really needs Western Digital to either prevent the old pre-Windows 8 driver from being automatically installed on people’s Windows 10 machines, or release updated drivers to the Windows Hardware Developer Portal that are compatible with Windows 10 Memory Integrity in Microsoft Defender. The above is just a workaround.
