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Searching an external hard drive
I everyone, this is one that's been frustrating me for some time: Windows 7 search.
I've searched the forums and skimmed several threads regarding Win7 search, with opinions ranging from "great" to "grrrr" (story of Windows' life, eh? ).
Anyway, to the point: search works fine on the local C:, I can search for *.* and get all the files (I'm assuming, wasn't really searching for anything, just testing).
On my 1 TB ext. HDD, though, I do the same search, and get 7 documents.
I'm trying to consolidate the contents of 3 hard drives, and several flash drives, that have all become quite fragmented and out of sync (oops). Basically I've just copied everything onto this large drive, and started sorting everything on it.
On XP, I could search *.* and get every stinkin' file there was, in every sub-folder there. Made it easy to grab all the music files and put them in a folder, all the documents, and so on.
Finding it very difficult to get that functionality here. I *could* copy all 400+ GB to the local drive and do it there, I guess - would be faster, I know, but I have limited space on this drive.
I've tried several of the suggestions I found, such as changing Index settings, but no luck.
Has anyone figured out anything on this? Or ever encountered this issue on external drives? The drive is formatted FAT32, because I also use it on a Linux machine and a couple of OSX machines.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!
Last edited by sol92258; 16 Apr 2012 at 19:49.