Search Windows Space in Leopard: failure

In Snow leopard, trying to search Windows drive/space returns nothing. It is on a separate drive, Mac stuff on another. I can find files manually.

Is it the NTFS (read only) structure that makes search impossible? Or because Leopard can't maintain an index for search. If the answer is that it is impossible to search Windows disk space in Snow Leopard that's what will close this (dumb) forum question.

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Below is a feedback that I have sent to Apple regarding my user experience with Leopard and how things have changed, with the disappointing loss of features and functionality that was present in Tiger. I place this oversight, on Apple's part, on the same level of the disappearance of the hierarchical menus on folder in the Dock. For me it is worse as I never actually used folders in the Dock this way. I do understand the frustrations of those that do though.
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