OWC Aura Pro SSD not recognized

OWC Aura Pro SSD not recognized I have a macbook pro 13” retina early 2015. I have High Sierra already installed on it and want to upgrade my internal SSD with the OWC Aura Pro 1TB for more storage. I followed instructions and swapped the PCIe SSD. Got into recovery mode but from Disk Util and Terminal typing diskutil list. My new SSD does not appear.
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mcgyver89 [Entry]

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mcgyver89 [Entry]

"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."

mcgyver89 [Entry]

"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."