Did those exactly, it didn't work. <sigh> I think dauber's suggestion may work but that's the thing, I don't have any other ext hd that big to temporarily move files.

I've searched all over the internet and couldn't find anything about it. I knew from the get go that when I first bought this ext hd, that if I formatted it as Journaled - Mac OS extended there wouldn't have any issues regarding indexes.

I mean the ext hd is functioning properly...just that SPOTLIGHT can't search anything in that drive while my older LACIE ext hd....no problem really.