windows 7 cannot find files only folders

Question

When I do a search in windows 7 I cannot find any files, even though I do a search for a file i know exists (I can see the file in explorer).

The search query returns folders but not files.

Edit: I totally forgot that the drive I'm trying to do a search on is encrypted using TrueCrypt. If figured this out because when I tried to do a search on my system disk it works out fine, but not on the encrypted disk.

Answer 1

Within explorer check this setting:

Organize -> Folder and search Options -> Search Options -> Search -> What to search

Answer 2

are you searching for a system file? if you are you have to set the search settings to allow you to search for hidden and system files. otherwise when you search for system files it will now return in the search results.