Windows 10 After hard drive replacement, Windows 10 desktop Search very slow

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A couple of months ago, I replaced a secondary hard drive in my Dell Precision T3620 desktop computer. This is a quite powerful machine - 16GB RAM, main hard drive is a 500GB PCIe-NVM SSD. The operating system (and the search index) are on that SSD.

The secondary drive is a 4TB magnetic (spinning) disk, a like-for-like replacement for an older 4TB disk which began to register bad sectors after several years of use in other computers before and this one since I put it in service over a year ago.

Until the replacement of this secondary hard disk, Windows desktop Search (that is, hit the Windows key or click the Windows Start button, and start typing) was very fast. It found anything on the local disk, in my decades of Exchange mailbox contents, etc.

Now, after the disk replacement, Windows desktop Search is quite slow - what once took fractions of a second or two to three seconds at most, can take 30 to 90 seconds. Results ARE found, but always very slowly.

I've run the Search Troubleshooter (it finds nothing), rebuilt the indices - nothing helps. Neither has anything I've found in the (hundreds) of online discussion threads about Windows desktop Search performance turned out to be relevant.

So, how do I get my fast search performance back?

thanks.

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