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Performance Boost: Move Search Index to Another Physical Drive

By on October 13, 2008 (12 Comments)

If you have more than one physical drive in your computer, this guide is for you. The search index can take a considerable toll on your system drive; by moving the index to a separate drive, you can increase overall performance. Learn how to move the Windows Vista search index to another drive in this guide.

Move the Search Index to Another Drive

1. Press Start, type index in the search bar and press Enter

2. Press the Advanced button

3. Press Select new at the bottom and select a new location on a different physical hard drive

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4. Press OK

Your search index will now need to rebuild, which may temporarily slow performance.

Performance Boost: Move Search Index to Another Physical Drive

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  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?
    So basically i just need to know how big to make the page file and search index partions,

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?
    So basically i just need to know how big to make the page file and search index partions,

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?
    So basically i just need to know how big to make the page file and search index partions,

  • Devin

    i have 20gb and 384mb of ram i want to seperate vista,pagefile, and search index on different drives/partitions( i know how to create em i just dont know what all my settings should be) can you tell me how i would go about doing that?
    So basically i just need to know how big to make the page file and search index partions,

  • Wizkid

    I have a number of fast flash cards that stay in my laptop permanently. Would it be detrimental to move my index location to one of these cards? The speeds range from 10MB/s sustained (SDHC backup) to 90MB/s sustained (P2HD raid 4-way SDHC raid as scratch disk) my SxS (untested >50MB/s) are in expresscard slot during edits. I would think the index location would benefit from the decreased seek times of flash and it would take a load off of my HDD. It’s easy to set up a flash drive (+ reader) as an internal drive, so setting the location is not an issue.

    I’m looking to add an ssd to the system at some point (move current HDD to the CD/DVD drive slot as storage), so I assume I’ll move the index location back to the boot drive then.

    Thanks for the article and response.


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