Samsung T7 Shield acquired for Mac Mini 5 backup about 1 month ago. Worked fine until this morning.
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Original Title: External T7 SSD on Mini suddenly asks for password which I do not have so cannot access or erase
The password might be in your Keychain.
Try restarting your Mac through Safe Mode.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/116946
Seems to be something that can happen with some Samsung T7 external SSDs:
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Monitors-and-Memory/T7-SSD-Factory-Reset/td-p/2599650
If you don’t have the device password elsewhere, you’re headed for a device reset:
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/portable/
Might also want to check with Samsung support.
Maybe post a screenshot so we can know exactly what you are seeing.
This is embarrassing but I seem to have fixed the problem - without knowing how it happened or really what I did to fix it. I believe I managed to get Disk Utility to recognise the SSD so I erased it and I can now start from scratch.
Mr Hoffman and DI Johnson - thank you for your suggestions, I would send a screenshot but now I can’t replicate the prompt.
The external SSD is now in the process of backing up my system, so I’m back to where I should be.
Samsung T7 Shield password prompt on Mac mini 5 backup
