Spotlight forgetting it's privacy settings

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could help me with the following issue with Spotlight. Yesterday, I set the Spotlight to have my Bootcamp partition the in the Private tab as I don't see the need of having my Bootcamp partition indexed as I only use it for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and nothing else. However, today I noticed that Spotlight was being slow giving document results. I quickly checked the Spotlight settings in System Preferences> Spotlight> Privacy Tab and see that the Bootcamp partition was not in the list. I re-added the partition, but I don't know what could have caused spotlight to forget its settings.
Is there a way to fix this?
Many thanks!

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