Hi guys!
I'm trying to upgrade my earyl 2015 MBP with a WD SN550 1TB drive and a QNINE M.2 NVME SSD Adapter.
After timemachining my MacBook I switched the SSD with the new (empty) one. I thought that I could just use the recovery mode to format the drive and restore from the timemachine backup again.
Unfortunately the SSD is not recognized in the recovery mode. Nor is it recognized when I open the DiskUtility in recovery mode. What are my options here? I'm creating a bootable USB drive from the catalina .dmg as I'm typing this. Is that the way to go? Or do I need to get an adapter for the new SSD, put back to old SSD into the macbook and then format the new SSD while running macOS from the old SSD?
Thank you for the help!
EDIT: I just notice that the recovery system that my Macbook is laoding from the internet is labelled "OS X" instead of macOS. Can this be a hint? Since I think I need at least Mojave to support these type of SSD?
I think the USB is what you need to do, so the drive can be seen, formatted, and the OS installed.
I used Carbon Copy Clone to backup my SSD, then booted to the image after fitting the NVMe drive. I had the installer for Catalina already downloaded, so it was part of the backup. All I had to do was run it after formatting the drive.
I don’t think you can just fit the new drive and set it up from recovery, it’ll never see the drive to use it.