SSD install, will not show during OSX install help!

Some interesting reading from about 8 hours ago. Too much relevant reading to quote all, but in short: SSDs should not be "erased": SSD Secure erase - interrupted - now drive not found

SSDs are not HDs. Managing it take a new set of rules. I am not pretending to be smarter ... I am learning like everyone else who is willing to pay attention to the actions of others and learn what not to do.

The best course of action right now may be to power it up be leave it "inactive" to let the management-firmware take over for a few hours.

Good luck.

If you have filled it up with stuff without enabling TRIM, it cannot get rid of anything previously written, so it fills up with "deleted data" until it chokes.

What an SSD needs to work again is to have one free "SuperBlock" in which to write. Sometimes if you can leave it alone, but powered up for 20 to 30 minutes, (sometimes multiple times) it will start an internal "garbage collect" cycle. It tries to combine all the smaller partial empty blocks to get a free SuperBlock. If it can, it may start to respond again, but it is still full-to-bursting.

SSDs assigns data blocks in random order. When you ERASE an SSD, it declare all blocks vacant and the blocks are completely randomized. If you attempt to read back data, you should get an error, or all zeroes.

If you were somehow able to "trick" the drive into sending you some data, it would be hopelessly scrambled.

For "ordinary" data all you need to do to erase an SSD is to send it the ERASE command. For Nuclear Secrets, you shred the chips.

Do not try to write over the data on an SSD. It is already unusable when you say "erase the drive".

If it shows itself in Disk Utility, you could try a regular erase.

If it can erase, you may be able to partition and use it again.

If not, try leaving it powered on but not accessed for a half hour or more. and if that brings no joy, try Restarting and leaving it alone again.

The convoluted procedure you describe will work fine on a Mac. Macs are capable of booting from any appropriate device.

The way Mac OS X installs is to get together a stripped down version of the incoming software, boot to that, then use that to move the appropriate files into place. Only when the process is nearly complete, are the changes made permanent. A failure part way through is intended to leave the previous Mac OS X unchanged.