Download Windows drivers for Western Digital USB 3.0 PCI Express card
Question. From Storage Nut:
Hello, I have a new desktop PC and I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on it. My next step was to add a snazzy new Western Digital PCIe (PCI-Express) USB 3.0 card. I can’t find the driver disk and, unfortunately, Win7 x64 can’t seem to find the driver nor can stinkin’ Windows Update?! I checked the western digital site too and struck out, I don’t think it is even listed?!
So you’re my last best hope, to repeat: after running Windows update I still have ONE unknown device in device manager even though I know what it is 🙁 PS as stated, I am running x64 Windows.
Answer. Here is where to download the drivers for the WD USB 3.0 PCIe add on card:
[download id=”10466″ format=”1″]
(this is a local mirror of the install CD drivers, since they do not appear to be available anywhere online…)
You should be good to go since you are running 64 bit Windows 7. The install/setup utility will select the correct version. It also has drivers for XP/Vista/Windows 7 both 32 bit and 64 bit…
Hope this helps!
-JD
Photo of the WD PCIe card installed in a 1U server
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Thanks a bunch! Hard to believe WD doesn’t support their product enough to keep a driver posted up somewhere.
Hi Chris,
Thank you for your nice comment. I am very glad the WD driver was helpful to you!
Have a great week 🙂
-JD
I also wanted to thank you for having the drivers for the USB 3.0 card available. I was re-installing a bunch of software, but could not find the drivers for the USB card from Western Digital. I agree with the other commenter that it is weird for WD not to have it available. My system is whole again!
Hi John,
Thank you for your kind comment. I am very glad that the Western Digital driver was useful to you 🙂
Have a great weekend!
-J.D.
PS what types of USB 3.0 devices are you using? For me, I have a couple USB 3.0 hard drives that I really like and a gigabit Ethernet adapter that comes in pretty handy too 🙂
The USB 3.0 card is the one that came with the Western Digital My Book 3.0 – 1 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive. I got this back in 2010. I don’t think this unit is made anymore.
As I was writing this response, I decided to go back to the WD website, and this time I did find the driver download (the link did not work the last time, (weird huh?). http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=123&sid=127&lang=en
Just the same, thanks again for having the driver available as a alternate site which I had found through a Google search.
To answer your other question, as this time, on this Wndows PC, I do not have any other USB 3.0 devices attached, everything is USB 2.0 as those items don’t need the higher data rate. I use the MyBook as a supplemental drive on this PC, but have not needed to expand to more USB 3.0 external drives, since I later installed an ethernet-based NAS.
I know this is 5 years late, but THANK YOU
As WD no longer supports/even offers a driver for this card anymore for Win 7×64 and Microsoft Update will not update this card. (Compliance for transition to Windows 10 as Windows 7 road-map is depreciated.
a retired Microsoft Employee
– Deez
Dear Deez,
Thank you for your nice comment. I am very glad that this driver worked for you 🙂
Enjoy your WD card and have a great weekend!
Best regards,
-J.D.
Wow! In the end I finally got the drive I needed. THANK YOU XOXOXO
Hi AHC,
Thank you for your comment. I am very glad that the WD driver worked well for you!
Best regards,
-J.D.
I tried to go to the website to download the drivers and it wasn’t available. Any chance i can still get them somewhere?
Thanks,
George
Hey George, yes, the original Western Digital download link is long gone. The post has a local mirror hosted on jdhodges.com but I can’t verify if that’s still active. If the link is dead, try searching for ‘WD PCIe USB 3.0 card driver’ on sites like driverpack.io or driverguide.com. The underlying chip in that card was likely made by NEC/Renesas or Fresco Logic, and those manufacturer drivers often work as alternatives.