Windows 7 is not looking for files on my physics extra internal hard drive (d :)) why not?)

On the Microsoft Web site at: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows7/products/features/windows-search

It says on the page, , "a few people store all their files in a place these days. If Windows 7 is also designed to search for external hard drives, networked PC, and libraries. Overwhelmed by your search result? You can instantly narrow them by date, type of file and other useful categories. »

Why, then, can't I search for files on my internal additional physical hard drive D: I know are there, and yet I can see and open them in Windows Explorer?

I would debate that from what I see, by default, Windows 7 is not be indexed files on anything other than his main boot partition.

Is it possible to change Windows 7 to enable indexing of other readers, or force a periodic re-indexing?

If anyone has an answer, it would be much appreciated.

Try (see - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/improve-windows-searches-using-index-faq#1TC=windows-7 )

It will be useful.

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