Vista ultimate x64 dosent index my USB hard drive

[Maximilian]

Why not? When i search for stuff it never finds anything on it. I told it to index the drive in the options as well, whats up?

For the record its a 250GB Western Digital Passport drive and my laptop that its plugged into is a dell vostro 1700 with:

2.0ghz T7300 cpu
2GB ram
8600m GT
160GB 5400rpm drive
vista ultimate x64
santa rosa platform

EDIT: In fact not only does it not index it, it cant find ANYTHING on it. Search is useless for things on this USB drive....

 

[Maximilian]

Help

 

[Maximilian]

I beg!

 

[mb]

To index:
Open control panel.
Make sure you are in classic view.
Open Indexing Options
Click Modify
Click Show All Locations
Place a check mark next to your removable drive. Hit Ok.
If necessary, click Advanced and then Rebuild.

Also, removable drives can easily be searched. All you had to do was select Advanced Search and then change the Location to the removable drive. You could even click the checkbox next to "Include non-indexed..." if necessary.

 

[Maximilian]

Thats what i did from the beginning, it dosent locate anything in it.

 

[mb]

Then there is either a problem with your drive or your install because I was able to index and search one USB HDD and two USB flash drives on my Vista x64 machine.

 

[Maximilian]

Hmm very strange indeed, ive told it to index the entire drive, all my movies and mp3's, it will find alien 1 and 4 when i type in "alien" but it wont find 2 or 3. So search works... just... really badly, its like a one eyed spider its just hopeless. For the record the alien moves are all callled "alien 1 alien 2 alien 3 alien 4" no differences in the names except the numbers.

 

[Smilin]

try (with quotes!):

"alien 1"
"alien 3"
"alien*"

I'm kinda surprised it would find a single digit number at all. That's like indexing the word "the" or something.