Hello,
I recently got a Samsung SSD disk an I use the data migration tool to move my Windows 8 from my Hard Disk to my SSD.
After the migration, I replaced the hard drive with my SSD and installed the hard drive as a second disk, which I configured as the drive for my documents, swap file, temporary storage, etc.
However I noticed eventually that the search was not working as expected. In particular, search is not returning the items under my start menu as it should. Any other search location I try to add from my new C drive does not seem to work as expected.
Under search options, I can see that any location added from partition C was listed as D (unavailable). As the screenshot below demonstrates:
I did some digging and I found out in the registry the way the search locations are configured in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb266540(v=vs.85).aspx
<protocol>://<store or SID>\<path>\[item] or<protocol>://<store or SID>/<path>/[item]
I looked into my registry and I realised that the SID both my C drive and D drive are the same. For example consider these two locations I manually added to my indexing and how they get listed under the registry:
C:\inetpub is listed as --> file:///C:\[1bebad92-646b-4cdd-8aca-32e68c79ac9e]\inetpub\
D:\Utils is listed as --> file:///C:\[1bebad92-646b-4cdd-8aca-32e68c79ac9e]\Utils\
As you can see, both partitions are listed as having the same SID. This only happens with my C and D drives. Any other disk I attach an configure indexing for gets a different SID.
I was wondering how can I modify my D drive to make sure that it gets a different SID. I tried using DISKPART uniqueid command on my Disk 1 (the one with the D drive) and restarted the search service but that is not it.
I'm at a loss here. could someone please advise?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
P.