Drive "Grinding", mdworker eating CPU

[wrldwzrd89]

Anyone know why my external drive that I just moved to another Mac would be making strange grinding noises, and why mdworker would be consistently using about 20-25% of CPU time?

 

[Shadow]

Thats Spotlight indexing your disk. Press the icon in the top right corner to see progress

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Thats Spotlight indexing your disk. Press the icon in the top right corner to see progress

Thanks, good to know that's all it is.

 

[Eidorian]

Just let it run. It's Spotlight.