Indexing of a second drive

stevenson53 · 21 Mar 2017

Hi There,
I am having indexing problems in that only my C: drive gets indexed and my data drive D: gets ignored.
This means that none of the data on D: is included and as this is where my Outlook files are stored, they too don't get included.
I have tried rebuilding the index with and without Outlook and/or D: and I always get the same 4983 items so I know the drive is being ignored.
I have seen another thread like this but the problem didn't seem to get resolved.
Can anyone help please?
Thanks
Paul

dalchina · 22 Mar 2017

Could be a permissions issue on D:
Help: Can't get Windows to index my secondary hard drive. : Windows10

stevenson53 · 23 Mar 2017

Thanks for that but I don't think it is the Permissions.
The D: drive is shown in the indexing list.
Permissions are identical to that of a second machine which has no problems.

dalchina · 23 Mar 2017

Hi, clearly this is a problem some have been reporting from at least Win 8 on. I can confirm my 1Tb SSHD partitions can be indexed.

Was your data drive formatted and configured on your current PC?
Please post a screenshot of Disk Management. Thanks.

Also confirm chkdsk runs ok on it.

Presumably indexing of the file types on the drive is not disabled

Indexing of a second drive-snap-2017-03-23-08.24.17.jpg

and the drive is not encrypted.

stevenson53 · 23 Mar 2017

Hi Dalchina,
Thanks for helping!
This drive was formatted under another motherboard. I have all of the data backed up so easy to reformat and restore if you think that will help.
Attached the Disk Management screen shot.
I ran CHKDSK and got the attached. It came up with an unspecified error.
Also see a shot of Indexing.
I don't think the drive is encrypted and cant find anything in System to say it is.

Indexing of a second drive-capture-1.jpg

Cheers
Paul

dalchina · 23 Mar 2017

Ok, you said you had disk D:. The problem is it's B:. If you search you'll find reports of that problem.
E.g.
search - Windows 8 isn't searching/indexing secondary hard drives? - Super User

Besides that, based on the chkdsk result I'd recommend you format it then copy everything back anyway and run chkdsk again just to be sure.
(If you're using disk imaging, restoring the image will be easy).

I'd also run Crystal Diskinfo (free) on it to check SMART params.

lx07 · 23 Mar 2017

I'm only posting to follow this thread - I don't know the answer.

I've had the same issue since upgrading from 8. On numerous machines (and clean installs) Windows Search will only give results of C.

Specifically I index .mbr files (using the Plain Text Filter - they are text files).

If they are on C volume I can search the contents of these files. If they are on D I can't.

@dalchina seems to be the indexing master. Hopefully we can both get it sorted out. :)

dalchina · 23 Mar 2017

@lx07 - Hi, strange- but you're not alone as internet reports say as I'm sure you know.

I can confirm that I can index text file content on partition H which is on my GPT SSHD (SSD = system disk).

Both disks came with this laptop & I clean installed Win 10 on it.

I'm not an expert really, and I avoid Windows search except for relatively trivial use - see my new question in General Questions on indexing- sthg I finally decided to look more closely at.

stevenson53 · 23 Mar 2017

Sorry dalchina, I meant B: drrrrr!
i will try your ideas over the weekend to see if they work.
i did post the same question on Microsoft Community and they just said reinstall! Not very helpful really!
cheers

stevenson53 · 24 Mar 2017

Hi Dalchina,
ok I reformatted the drive and loaded the data files back onto it and chkdsk came up clean.
i also installed Crystal but not sure what I am looking for. The health status was Good although the C: drive was Good 100%.
indexing still didn't work though.
any other ideas please?
thanks