Search in Bootcamp From Mac OS X

SpotLight doesn’t index Bootcamp drive, since it has another file system. SpotLight indexes only HFS and HFS+ file systems.
To find files in a Bootcamp drive from Mac OS X drive, do the following:

  • Type in Terminal
  • Then find all your drive names, you have:
  • Now you can search something by pattern. For instance all Microsoft Word files in Bootcamp:
  • After you have found what you need, you might want to stop the search, that can be pretty long. To stop search just press Ctrl+C

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