Why am I unable to repair an external SSD in disk utility after improper ejection?
There is a problem I come accross whenever an external SSD is not ejected from within Mac OS. The SSD does not appear in finder but it does appear in disk utility, however, it isn't possible to fix the drive even with disk utility/first aid, trying to fix just leads to errors. The only way to solve it is to use a Windows machine to scan and repair the drive. Basically I just want to know why this happens. Luckily for me I own both Windows and Mac machines so in my case it is a minor inconvenience, but what about those who soley use Mac, how do they solve this issue? The drives don't need to be reformatted nor are they corrupt, it seems to be a compatibility thing as I also have an external NVME drive which isn't affected.
My devices:
Samsung T5 & T7 Portable SSD's - exFat file system
2016 Intel MacBook - Monterey
2020 M1 Mac mini - Monterey
2019 iPad Pro - iOS 15
MacBook Pro