OWC Aura Pro SSD not recognized

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"you have already inserted the disk now press the power button on and immediately after that hold down the ""C"" key on loading screen. navigate to the second page of the installation and here you can pull down a menu will appear. Now go to Disk Utilities to format the new drive GUID & Mac OS Extended. Now you can install the system while connecting to internet or by using a media bootable.

Also check the specs on your new SSD drive to see if it backward compatible with the system or not."

"I encountered similar issues with an Aura 2TB SSD in my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro Retina. Many painful steps later I 1. upgraded to Mojave on the old SSD; 2. Created a bootable USB with Mojave; 3. Moved the Aura 2TB to the Mac and the old Apple SSD to the Envoy enclosure; 4. booted (using Cmd-R) and then installed Mojave on the 2TB from the USB key; 5. replaced USB key with Envoy external drive, rebooted, and used Mac Migration to copy files from the Envoy (the old 500GB SSD).

Before this I had tried (after step 4) to recover from a Time Machine backup I made but after 24 hours of TM in “Preparing Backup”, I cancelled this and went to the step 5 above.

So far (fingers crossed!) I’ve been running 2 days on the Aura 2TB SSD with no problems."

"Older Aura SSD don’t have the needed firmware on them to work correctly A Note on High Sierra Compatibility with Third Party SSD's This SSD was sitting on the shelf awhile.

Here’s the needed update to get your drive going: Aura SSDs: Firmware Update

Once it’s working a second update will happen when you install High Sierra directly onto the SSD."

"A bit of a fiasco for me because I wiped the drive before updating the firmware, since I didn’t realize it was going to be an issue. Both recovery methods wouldn’t work ( original OS or latest OS ). So I needed to get an old OS on the drive somehow.

Short answer

I booted the wiped laptop in target mode and Carbon Copy Clone an old OS onto the wiped drive. After that I had control of the machine again, which allowed me to run the firmware app.

Long Answer:

All other machines in the house are macOS 11 so I couldn’t clone any of those because the firmware app won’t run under macOS11.

LAPTOP 1 ( with accidentally wiped OWC drive)

power offpower up in Target mode ( boot while holding t key)

LAPTOP 2

install vm fusioncreate a macOS 10.10 virtual machine

10.10 virtual machine

mount external driveCarbon Copy Clone virtual drive to external drive (because virtual machine does not recognize Target Drives).unmount external drive
LAPTOP 2

mount external drivemount Target drive (laptop1 — connect the two laptops via firewire) and check with disk utility that drive is External JournaledCarbon Copy Clone : external drive to target drive

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LAPTOP 1 ( OWC drive)

power off, to get out of target moderebootupdate OWC firmware"