Can't drag external drive into privacy of spotlight

... or any of it's folders.
I drag, or add and nothing happens...
It's a USB LAcie external drive of 250Gb.
Any ideas?
Thx

Strange. If the drive appears on the desktop, and the Mac can see it, there should be no reason why you can't add it to Spotlight's Privacy. You can try moving the spotlight preference file to the desktop in case it's corrupted. (Your Username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist). Relaunch spotlight and try again.

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