Use locate (or find) command to locate files on Windows partition from Ubuntu

I use the locate command quite heavily to search for files on my system and I think it works quite well for me.

I am now on a system with a double partition (Windows and Ubuntu) and I would like also to be able to locate files on my Windows partition.

I tried to do

sudo updatedb

locate FILETOBEFOUND

but it does not work. Do you know if there is a way to make it work? Is maybe the find command a better option for what I want to do. I tried that too but without success.

EDIT: the windows partition is NTFS and I can access it from the file explorer

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