Search indexing problems

[jaidenortiz7]

When searching for files on the F and L drives, it works properly and I am given a result. However, when I search on the C drive, it returns no results, ever. So I checked my indexing settings, made sure the C drive was selected and rebuilt the index. Still, searches turned no results. I did this multiple times. I also tried restarting the Windows Search service and changing policies in the Group Policy editor to no avail. Then I noticed something when deselecting the C drive in the indexing menu: When the C drive is deselected in the upper menu ("Change selected locations") the F drive disappears from the lower menu ("Summary of selected locations") even though the F drive is still selected in the upper menu. Also, when the F drive is deselected in the upper menu but C is selected, F still appears in the lower menu. When both C and F are deselected, F doesn't appear in the lower menu. It seems like drives C and F are connected somehow. I still have yet to find a way to index on my C drive.





When C is deselected but then F disappears.

When F is deselected but it still appears in the lower menu.

When both drives are deselected, F disappears.

 

[hang-the-9]

Post a screenshot of your disk manager results so we can see how your physical hard drives are setup.

 

[jaidenortiz7]

Post a screenshot of your disk manager results so we can see how your physical hard drives are setup.

 

[hang-the-9]

Disk 2 looks a bit odd for a secondary, did you have Windows installed on that as your main drive, then cloned or copied windows to the current Disk 0? You have a recovery partition there? There seems to be something in the way Windows is installed on the system or was modified after setup to another disk. What I would do is remove the secondary disks, with just Disk 0 in the system see if it will index it.

 

[jaidenortiz7]

Disk 2 looks a bit odd for a secondary, did you have Windows installed on that as your main drive, then cloned or copied windows to the current Disk 0? You have a recovery partition there? There seems to be something in the way Windows is installed on the system or was modified after setup to another disk. What I would do is remove the secondary disks, with just Disk 0 in the system see if it will index it.

Windows was cloned to the drive. So should I move the data somewhere else and then format the drive if Disk 2 is the problem?

 

[hang-the-9]

Disk 2 looks a bit odd for a secondary, did you have Windows installed on that as your main drive, then cloned or copied windows to the current Disk 0? You have a recovery partition there? There seems to be something in the way Windows is installed on the system or was modified after setup to another disk. What I would do is remove the secondary disks, with just Disk 0 in the system see if it will index it.

Windows was cloned to the drive. So should I move the data somewhere else and then format the drive if Disk 2 is the problem?

I would just remove all secondary drives and then see how the system runs. Once it's all good, then wipe the old disk or put it aside as a backup and replace it with a clean setup with a single partition for data.