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Indexing across a mount point in windows

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Mar 15, 20262946 views

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I have a new windows 7 computer. The first thing I did was in stall a 2nd hard drive and mount it at C:/Users/me this seems to work just fine, except one issue. Search does not find and file there, and the indexing service will not index it. I think the latter is the cause of the former. Is there a…

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After much searching, I found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260207 It explains that drives mounted to folders are not indexed BY DESIGN. It does not explain what kind of brain dead design this is, or what the reasons are.

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Indexing across a mount point in windows

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