Western Digital My Boo External

[Guest]

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I just purchased a new pc with VISTA. I have just about everything
installed and tweeked except for two things that are really bothering me.

One..Something is constantly accessing my external usb hard drive.

Two-Something is constantly accessing my interal hard drive.

Is there something I can disable, especially for the external drive.

Thanks for any help

 

[JW]

Maybe the indexing required for the new Vista fast search function has not
completed yet and it is running when there is not other activity.

 

[Dave]

Since it's a new PC, it's probably the search index working.
My external drive sleeps most of the time, as I don't have it included in
the index.

You can change the index options in Control Panel.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

You can also disable indexing for the drive from the Properties page when you
right click on the drive in Computer. (uncheck: Index this drive for faster
searching.)