Laptop disk spin up/spin down

New HP laptop

The computer periodically goes into a mode where the drive spins up/down
several times a minute.

Any clues on how to resolve this problem? I have not contacted HP yet..

Thanks,

"Mickey Lane" <> wrote in message
news:...
> New HP laptop
>
> The computer periodically goes into a mode where the drive spins up/down
> several times a minute.
>
> Any clues on how to resolve this problem? I have not contacted HP yet..
>
> Thanks,
>

It's probably doing file indexing. You can always disable file the indexing
service.

OK, I'll give that a shot.

The laptop has 2 physical disks of 150 Gbyte each with C: and a recovery
partition on one and nothing on the other.

What impact is turning off indexing on C: likely to have?

Thanks,

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. > wrote in message
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>
> "Mickey Lane" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> New HP laptop
>>
>> The computer periodically goes into a mode where the drive spins up/down
>> several times a minute.
>>
>> Any clues on how to resolve this problem? I have not contacted HP yet..
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> It's probably doing file indexing. You can always disable file the
> indexing service.

"Mickey Lane" <> wrote in message
news:...
> OK, I'll give that a shot.
>
> The laptop has 2 physical disks of 150 Gbyte each with C: and a recovery
> partition on one and nothing on the other.
>
> What impact is turning off indexing on C: likely to have?

It only has some kind of impact if you're doing a lot of searching/finding
of files and whatnot on the computer.