What the hell is the indexing service doing?

My hard drive was making steady grinding noises, so I checked the Resource Monitor. It shows the Vista Indexing Service active, but the "Write B/Min" keeps increasing, and currently it's at 38,000,000 (or something like that). It was increasing until I started another program and now it's decreasing.

I'm WTF???

Any idea??

 

Run chkdsk /r and scannow.

chkdsk: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265/en-us
scannow: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747/en-us

 

I ran a checkdisk recently, had one bad sector that couldn't be repaired. Can't do the scannow as it seems to be only XP.

thanks

 

No, - here is scannow for Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
System Restore Vista: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/517d3b8e-3379-46c1-b479-05b30d6fb3f01033.mspx
Last Known Good Configuration Vista: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/cdb4c0dd-5698-4197-b906-d6a6d413621d1033.mspx

This one can do a few surprising things:
Windows Live OneCare Safty Scanner - free online for Vista: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/center/whatsnew.htm

 

Startup Repair is a Windows Vista recovery tool that can fix certain problems, such as missing or damaged system files, that might prevent Windows from starting correctly.

Link: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx#EI

 

Thanks, but Vista's working properly -- but the indexing service is going crazy.

 

Have Nero installed?

 

Yeah, I have Nero.

The indexing service is behaving now. I've got no idea.

 

Make sure that Nero is updated. Check that you run the latest version. Nero can do this...

 

And so can malware by the way...