How can I index my external hard drive to my macbook reads it.

I tried adding it to the privacy list then deleting it from that list ad nothing. I tried using terminal but I am a pc guy and couldnt get it to index the drive. Please help me, I need to be able to quickly search the drive for work.
It is a macbook 2009 running Yosemite.

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