One Drive on Mac Mini Server not indexing - no spotlight or finder results

I have two drives on my Mac mini server. No RAID, etc. They are factory config 500G each.
The "main" drive has all the applications, desktop, etc on it and indexes fine, I can search or spotlight with no problem.
Anything on the other disk works fine, but is not searchable. Is there a setting that I have turned off search on that other drive? Is there a way to force a re-index, etc.

Look in System Preferences > Spotlight > privacy tab > See if the drive is listed in the exclusion list. If so highlight and press the "-" icon below the list to allow indexing. It will start immediately after you remove it from this list.
Regards,
Captfred

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