Did anyone have this 2nd hdd problem?

Ok so I got my ssd about a month ago did the tweaks for windows 7 then I later decided that I would remove my dvd drive and put in my old hdd in it's place. Now I turned off windows search and indexing for the ssd but I want it on the second hard drive.

When I turned everything back on windows search and indexing works on the ssd but can't get it to index anything on the second hard drive. I figured it's a permission issue so I made myself the owner and set the permissions exactly as it was on the ssd. The only permission not there is trusted installer since you can't add that.

I undid all the registry tweaks and now last thing before a total reinstall is wiping second hard drive and reformatting. After that I give up because for weeks now nobody has been able to fix this.

The main goal is to have all my documents on second hard drive and be able to index for quick search.

 

Go to control panel, Indexing Options and select Modify.

Now, simply add the location you want Indexed.

Good luck.

 

Yeah it doesn't index any files on the drive at all. It's like it doesn't read any file. Index completes in like 3 seconds.

 

Hmmm, have you borked your Windows install, or are you simply missing some key steps?

Not sure how to help more, sorry.

 

You changed the owner and stripped the permissions? You did it under the Security Tab after right clicking on XX folder?

 

as far as permission is concern, the search process runs under System Account so you would need to have 'read/browse' access to the whole drive for this particular account.

Other than that, it is just standard front end of which directory to index or not.