EA App wont install on external SSD

I've been looking to finally try other games, going back to games I've had for years but upon trying to install the game on my external SSD the EA app gets stuck on 2% preparing and freezes. The app won't even let me close it using task manager, and trying to restart my PC doesnt work either, I have to force my PC to turn off in order to restart it. Thinking its just a problem with the EA app in general, I wanted to see if I could install a game on my PC itself and there were no problems, it started downloading immediately. I've tried clearing cache, tried repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling and its not fixed.

I don't believe its a problem with my SSD, because using other launchers there aren't any problems like this (on Steam it just reserves storage and downloads normally, while Epic Games just stops and starts downloading every so often for a couple of seconds).

Are there any solutions to this?