OSX issues with seeing SSD

[Woah1331]

so MacBook air model A1465 hard drive took a dive on me. so I bought the adapter off amazon and tossed in a stick of 256gig single sided wester digital (known good out of another machine). installed and booted into recovery, cannot see it. so i currently have OSx running off a 64gig flash drive and i still cannot see the internal SSD. from what i have skipped around and read is that i need to install to high sierra for it to read and function on the internal nvme stick. i cannot find the definitive answer. i am kind of confused as to which was i need to go with this... my googling has honestly ran me into circles with no true answer.



sorry if this is in the wrong section and needs to be in hardware, it just seemed to be more of a software problem.

thanks in advance for the help and suggestions.

 

[harryb2448]

Apple use proprietary connectors with their Blade Drives.


https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades

 

[Woah1331]

I understand that which is why I bought an a adapter.

its a software issue that it doesn't register the nvme

 

[ferrarr]

What is not seeing the drive? Disk Utility or the installer? Has the drive been formatted for Mac?

 

[Woah1331]

both... neither of them see it and no it is not formatted for mac. I don't own a ssd to usb to format it for mac.

from what I read on some forums that if I had OSX on the MacBook air it should be able to read the new SSD with the adapter and be able to be formatted. but now I am stumped.

 

[ferrarr]

Then the adapter is not working.

 

[Woah1331]

what would be the alternative to say loading high sierra onto my mac book air?

 

[usagora]

I'd recommend buying a replacement SSD kit from OWC:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-air