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I had changed/ reassigned drives on Windows 10 and indexing would not turn on. Searching was difficult if not impossible. I was led to this post here: https://superuser.com/a/1599455/1830217 which corrected the issue as it was looking for S drive which was gone, so I inserted a USB drive and assigned it to S and then indexing worked.

I now need to to migrate the location of my S drive but when I open Indexing Option, but it shows the location as C:\ProgramData/Microsoft with no reference to the S drive.

Could I get some direction on what I need to do so I can remove my USB drive its currently referencing? I have a low level of understanding on this but can follow directions well.

Thanks so much! Nancy

Hannu
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nancygail
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You could give your C: disk the alternate name of S:, by running the Command Prompt (CMD) and entering the following command:

subst S: C:\

To make this persistent across reboots, see the post How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots?

Reference : subst command.

(Note: I truly don't understand why having S: is crucial for Windows Indexing, especially if there is no mention of it in Indexing Options.)

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