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I have a MacBook running 10.7.5, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, with about 173 GB free. Clean, virus-free, spyware-free system.
Recently, the MacBook began freezing up. I thought, at first, it was just Firefox, but it began doing it randomly, regardless of the activity. The freeze-ups would not only happen during regular use, but even during reboots or when starting in Recovery. I began to suspect that the freeze-ups were related to Spotlight when, after several reboots today, I happened to click on Spotlight to quickly access a diagnostic app. I saw that Spotlight was "indexing". The fan was running. I began to wonder about that, as I do notice the fan running a lot, lately. Rather than run any Terminal commands, I opened System Preferences ----> Spotlight-----> Privacy, clicked the + button and dragged my hard drive's icon into the field, overlooking the warning that Spotlight wouldn't be able to return any searches. Suddenly, my MacBook has not only stopped freezing up, the fan's no longer constantly running and I can now watch videos on YouTube. (During the past week or so, videos would come to a screeching halt and begin "broken record repeating" and the cursor would freeze up.) That's no longer happening; videos are fine.
My question is this: I realize that it's probably not the best solution to keep my hard drive out of Spotlight's grasp, the Spotlight app is there for a reason. But obviously, Spotlight is causing my MacBook to freeze up with all this indexing. How would one go about isolating the offensive file, script, etc., that's sending Spotlight into its frenzy? I'm reluctant to move the hard drive's icon out of the privacy field to ferret this out because the laptop will certainly freeze up about every 10 minutes. But I suppose I must, in order to detect the issue?
Thanks!

If you have had this problem while booted ino recovery mode, it's not a Spotlight issue. If your hard drive is failing, that could cause the problems you describe. Do you have good backups? If not, your first order of business needs to be backing up all data that you don't want to lose. Once you have done that, you can start troubleshooting.
Regarding troubleshooting, you can check the SMART status of your hard drive in Disk Utility, but it's important to note that failing hard drives can easily have "verified" SMART status.
It would also be worth repairing the hard drive with Disk Utility. If the hard drive is actually failing, though, repairing won't do squat... the drive will have to be replaced.
Your problems involving Spotlight could also have been caused by a corrupt Spotlight index. Since you added the entire hard drive to the Privacy pane, removing it will cause Spotlight to completely rebuild the index, which would solve that problem... if that were the problem.
Also, you mention that your machine is "clean, virus-free, spyware-free," which suggests that you may have been using cleaning utilities and anti-virus software. Regarding the former, that's a bad idea - see The myth of the dirty Mac. As for anti-virus software, what software are you using? Some anti-virus software is good, while others can bring your Mac to its knees.

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