My Windows 8.1 setup involves an SSD and an NTFS formatted HDD.
I have specifically asked Windows to index the HDD:
I have given Windows lots of time to rebuild the index (and my computer is overpowered in terms of processing power for most applications).
My hard drive is NTFS formatted and allows indexing:
It has no errors:
Finally, I have restarted my computer.
Yet, I cannot find files that are located inside of it. Notice that there is a file that clearly has model in its name, yet searching for model inside the folder RESEARCH comes up with no results.
Why is this happening?
As per Karan's suggestions, I checked the access settings for SYSTEM:
*model*
as the search string help?File Explorer > Tools menu > Folder options > Search tab
ensure Include subfolders and Find partial matches are both checked. If that doesn't help, I suppose you can try removing A: from the search index, adding only RESEARCH, rebuilding (wait for it to complete) and then see whether it works.