attach the SSD as an external drive first through USB/FireWire/ Thunderbolt.What steps have you already taken? If you can give us a detailed list of the things you've already done, in order, it will be easier to determine where the problem is.Ī common technique to replace an internal boot HD with an SSD would be to: Of course, if the way you installed this SSD was to remove the previous internal HD and install the SSD in its place, without formatting the new SSD and installing a bootable operating system first, then there's no operating system or formatting utility at all. Unless the operating system on the old boot drive posts a dialog box offering to format the unrecognized drive, the computer doesn't "detect" anything because there isn't anything the operating system can speak to yet. A new internal drive normally ships unformatted.
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