MacBook Pro crashes and reboots after connecting external SSD

Hi,

I just solved it.

I used an app called "Disk Arbitrary" to prevent the drive from automatically mounting.

Then I used an app called "Disk drill", which was capable of retrieving the 1.32TB without a problem.

After copying the data, I used a feature to rebuild the journaling and the drive was back at work.

Thank you!

Also, I was able to copy all data without "mounting" the drive on DiskDrill.

After securing the data, I was able to use DiskDrill to rebuild the journaling and still use the drive without formatting.

I've seen weird things happen when a bad USB cable or device was plugged in. As in really weird where my MacBook Pro just locked up and wouldn't power down or power up. Where I heard this faint hum coming from the main board. In my case it was resolved after a tech disconnected the battery connector and then reconnected it.

My first though is that the SSD port, cable, or connector has gone bad. Could be something like shorted pins. What kind of SSD is it?

Hi,

sure. It's actually called disk arbitrator, it's available on GitHub.

https://github.com/aburgh/Disk-Arbitrator

Thank you for identifying Disk Arbitrator - it enabled attaching SSD without Kernel Panic and recovering 90% of files

I thought about the port as well, but couldn't verify it at the moment, I'll check better later today.

About cables, I tried different ones, USB C, and Thunderbolt 3 cables.

The SSD is a Samsung T7, 2TB.

A T5 500GB still working fine.

This was what GPT4 had to say after I pasted the report there:

It looks like you are experiencing a kernel panic on your Mac. This specific panic seems to be related to the HFS+ file system and journaling.

Hello - having same problem but can you be more specific regarding "Disk Arbitrary" to prevent Auto mounting, was not able to located App with that name. Disk Drill was located for copying data and rebuilding journal but not able to connect with out kernel panic when connecting the SSD.

Thank you

I have the Same Setup as the Author and expierence the Same issue while the Setup did not Change (Docking Station) - I tried the external SSD without a Docking Station and the same happened (freezes and crashes immediately when OS tries to Mount the drive.

I'll try out the Solution and get back if it did not work for me :)

Hi - I tried to download "Disk Arbitrary" but it seems it will not work on silicon Macs? or is there a silicon version?