Ryan Hayward wrote:
> I've noticed that since switching over to Vista, my hard-drive's
> activity light is always
> active. I've been told that its Vista indexing the drives or maybe the
> Disk Defragmenter but
> it really never stops, not even if the 'puter's been on for ages and is
> idle.
>
> Should I be concerned as I really don't want to go through a new
> hard-drive so quickly....
>
> Seems to be a big concern with a lot of other people too, if you do a
> google search on
> Vista hard drive never stops or similar.....

Try turning off indexing. See if that helps.

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