Question How to completely reset the Microsoft Seach/Indexing

[Balic Blackthorn]

I recently cloned my OS drive onto a larger one as an upgrade, then changed that to be my boot disk. I have everything running fine EXCEPT when I search for documents via the start menu search, it keeps bringing up my old drive (which I WAS keeping for a backup). I tried rebuilding the index multiple times, and even went so far as to wipe the other disk so it CAN'T bring up the old files, but it still does (in that the file path is still to the old drive, not the CURRENT C drive).

Is there some way I can fix this? It's not mission critical, but bloody annoying. Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

I recently cloned my OS drive onto a larger one as an upgrade, then changed that to be my boot disk. I have everything running fine EXCEPT when I search for documents via the start menu search, it keeps bringing up my old drive (which I WAS keeping for a backup). I tried rebuilding the index multiple times, and even went so far as to wipe the other disk so it CAN'T bring up the old files, but it still does (in that the file path is still to the old drive, not the CURRENT C drive).

Is there some way I can fix this? It's not mission critical, but bloody annoying. Thanks.

It looks like you did something wrong in the clone process.

Done correctly, whatever was on the original Source drive ends up on the Target drive.
Same path, same folders, same search, everything.

The old C drive should net even be connected.

 

[Balic Blackthorn]

It looks like you did something wrong in the clone process.

Done correctly, whatever was on the original Source drive ends up on the Target drive.
Same path, same folders, same search, everything.

The old C drive should net even be connected.

It's strange. The old C drive is now the D drive. Everything else is fine, but the search results point to the files on the D drive now (even though I wiped the drive).

My google searches turned up some stuff to try, but they are for windows 7. I don't want to mess with the registry based on information from two windows versions back.

 

[USAFRet]

It's strange. The old C drive is now the D drive. Everything else is fine, but the search results point to the files on the D drive now (even though I wiped the drive).

My google searches turned up some stuff to try, but they are for windows 7. I don't want to mess with the registry based on information from two windows versions back.

Done correctly, it can't do that after the clone.

As said, the entire contents of the new drive is exactly the same as the original.

At the end of the clone process, did you physically disconnect the old drive and allow the system to boot up from only the new drive?


But since you've already wiped the old drive, I don't see a good path forward.


If possible, please show us a screencap of your current Disk Management window.