Windows not to perform a search on my external hard drive

I have a drive external hard seagate free agent desktop. It works well and I am able to save and retrieve information off of it without problem. However, Windows does not research on the external hard drive. I tried to use it on another computer, and the research was conducted as usual. I do not understand what is happening. Can someone please help with this? It's a drive external hard 750Go, and it is difficult to search manually.

I tried to search on my memory stick on this computer, and I was able to do it without problem. The only problem is to find between this computer and the external hard drive.

You must enable the disc to the search index.  Here are the procedures (there are several procedures in this document - I think that these are the second most): http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69564-index-enable-disable.html.

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

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