Windows Search Indexing all messed up - Kill it with fire

[FreshJR]

I don't even know if there is a way to repair this issue. I even made a video, please check it out.

I have two windows installations on two separate drives.

disk 0 - windows 8.1
disk 1 - windows 8.1

Both windows boot as disk C, with the other OS always as disk D.
Everything works fine, except that windows index is the devil.

It insists on indexing both drives. I do not want this to happen. I want it to only search the current drive / OS I am using. I will manually access the other drive and pull the files as needed. I do not want to see duplicates, etc.

I cannot get it to index just one drive. See video.

https://youtu.be/-k7HeXRJDjw

Video summary:

• Open search index options
• Select it to index C : \Users
• Verify that D : \Users is not checked
• Click OK
• See that both harddrives have activity in performance monitor
• Open Indexed location
• C : \Users is checked
• D : \Users is checked (UNWANTED)
• Uncheck D : \Users
• C : \Users is still checked
• Press OK
• Open Indexed location
• C : \Users unchecked
• D : \Users unchecked
• Run through process twice. Indexing is messed up!

 

[Ketchup]

IMO, most likely that is the way Microsoft intended it to work, or it is a bug at the OS level. Would be fun to test some time.

Are you sure that you need indexing? Conversely, are you sure that having indexing for both is such a bad thing?

I purposely turn off indexing on my drive's Properties page, and from Indexing Options. I get nearly instant results on my drive and my network without it.

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

I don't know what the issues is but do you have Hardlinks or User/System variable changes for the user folder?

Also, what happens when you set up the partitions then remove the drive, remove the second's drive letter, or otherwise make it accessible? Once accessible does it continue to attempt to mirror the drives.

 

[Underclocked]

Remove the drive letter of the D drive from both operating systems. I don't know that will work but it certainly should.