Samsung t7 search not working Mac

[NinaWildeUK]

I've added a video to show you what it does

The search pops up and then disappears and repeats .. I can't use the search feature at all .. I've unplugged it, restarted the MacBook, tried a different MacBook (so it's the drive)

I don't want to have to reformat it but if I need to now is the time as I have a new empty MacBook

Can anyone help

Thanx

[johnz237]

"Unable to search external SSD when connected to my MacBook Pro on macOS Monterey"

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255533779?sortBy=rank

[NinaWildeUK]

Yeh I checked the rebuild spotlight but I'm on sequoia and it hasn't fixed anything. So this based on the actual harddrive that's the issue

As stated as well I've tried it on 2 different MacBooks so it's Def an hd error

[printerdriversupport]

Looks like the drive might be corrupted or have a bad index. Before reformatting, try running Disk Utility > First Aid on it. If that fails, yeah, probably best to reformat since you’ve got a fresh setup anyway.