Boot Camp + Vista = HDD thrashing

Search indexing and SuperFetch, presumably. The indexing will stop once it's finished indexing (surprisingly!), while SuperFetch loads frequently-used programs and files into RAM to enhance performance. If you're not going to be using Vista often or for running lots of apps, you could disable the service.
 
How come Spotlight in OS X can index the drive without all this undue HDD thrashing?

It still does it. When I clone a drive and boot from it the hard drive thrashes for ages and you can see a little dot pulsing in the spotlight icon in the top right. Then if you click the icon it gives you a progress bar and tells you the estimated time remaining.

After the initial index it does it on the fly so you never notice it again. I'm sure Vista is the same it will just be the initial indexing your noticing.
 
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