How to search a USB-attached NTFS drive without indexing?

I have an NTFS backup drive from an old Windows XP system attached to an iMac running Mountain Lion.
I would like to search for something on it.
I do *not* want to write to it, nor do I need it indexed.
How can I find something on this drive?

Is some special configuration needed to search non-indexed volumes?
I can put anything I want in for search criteria in Finder's "File - FInd" dialog, and nothing is found on either my directly attached USB drive or on an SMB share mounted read-only on the network. It doesn't matter whether I wait 2 minutes or 2 hours. For example, the root directory of my USB drive contains numerous files of the form Bkup*.log, but no results appear in the search window for either "Bkup" or "log", nor do any appear if I agree to the automatic conversion of "log" into a "Kind2.
What is worse, there is not even any visible acknowledgement of my input: no indication that a search was completed or even started.
Since the default search location is "This Mac", the search window will even continue to show search result from a previous search (if there are any) after I have changed the scope to my USB (or network) drive and changed the search criteria.

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