External HD crashes all computers, how to get DVR day?

So, it appears my external HD is causing kernel panics and making my Mac mini dvr reboot constantly.

Any ideas on how I can get the DVR data off that device? The old shows I can live without, but the database.... that’s a rough one.

Try booting a live linux distro off a USB drive. I know Linux Mint will boot on a 2018 Mac mini from USB, I've done it for testing purposes. Once there you can pull the data off the HD and upload the DB somewhere online.

I was able to get the drive to boot properly using safe mode and grabbed the files off it.

But then decided to just try it again, and now it’s working properly after restart.

Still getting a new HD, that one was old anyway.

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