HD light blinking

[Enigmatist]

Hello Everyone,

I have a short question regarding my Thinkpad R61. I'm guessing its the same as the T61 in this aspect.

I've noticed that when I leave my thinkpad idle for enough time, the screen will go into the screen saver, but after about 2-5 min, the HD light (5th from left and right) will blink rapidly non-stop.

Could anyone explain whats going on?

Thanks

[icantux]

That reports disk activity. If you're running Vista then it's probably the file-indexing going on in the background.

[jdouaze]

If you have the ThinkVantage Maintenance Manager on your ThinkPad, it may also be set to defrag and run the anti-virus during periods of inactivity.

Ballallaz

[Enigmatist]

hmm... i dont have the maintenance manager installed

however, it could be indexing (except i thought i turned it off...)

how do i officially turn off windows indexing?

you guys dont think its someone trying to access my harddrive when i'm idle do you? hope not...

[Shade]

I typed in "www.google.com" in my internet brower.
Then I typed "Vista Indexing" into the little white thingy on google......
and the first website that came up:

http://www.vistaultimate.com/tweak-wind ... dexing.htm
I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions, I will use google before asking dumb questions

[synapse]

If you're running Vista, it might be defragmenting (even without the ThinkVantage app installed).

I believe Vista's defrag is set to run when the computer is idle (though I also see that it has a schedule option - possibly to make sure that it runs at some point?).

[Pepa]

you guys dont think its someone trying to access my harddrive when i'm idle do you? hope not...

if someone will steal your data, he will not be waiting till screensaver - only if you have screensaver with some backdoor program

You can disable indexing on drive by right click on hard drive, properties and on the first tab there is checkbox about it.

[Enigmatist]

thanks everyone,

i'll try turning off windows disk defragmentater

apparently i already have indexing turned off, just confirming