I had a drive H: on an old Win installation / Notebook. Indexed as H:. Then drive H: was plugged in to another Notebook with a DVD drvie H:. Everything the removed the old H: index and "indexed" (added it to the NTFS indexes) the DVD drive instead having 0 bytes to be indexed. How could one avoid such?
And how could one avoid (empty) DVD / BluRay drives to be indexed? And to automatically be added to the (NTFS) indexes?
After removing the 0 byte index H: Everything seems (according to the duration, lasts very long) to index all of the properties of the online drives again:
You can try to assign - on each computer separately, that H: drive to a high enough drive letter such that drive letter conflicts don't arise... (& with that, H:'s [new] letter will become essentially permanent to each computer [where you've done this].)
So if you assign that drive as, say, O: (or W:, for OldWindows, or Windows) - on each computer (& assuming O: or W: are high enough to avoid conflicts), the next time you plug that particular drive into either computer it will be seen as O: (or W:).
Yes, a good idea, thank you, but unfortunately there is no letter left I could use. And I am wondering why at all an empty DVD drive is "indexed" / added to the index and replacing the other index (of a hard drive). And how one could avoid that.
