ssd not recognized in disk utility when booting in macos installer

Regardless of what format, and what software formatted it, to be useable on a Mac, the Device must be seen in Disk Utility. if your version of Disk Utility has the tiny 'View' menu, it must be set to 'Show all devices' to be useful.

to be usable as an Installer destination for MacOS of about that era, it needs GUID partition map and a MacOS Extended HFS+ Volume present on which to install.

rares229 wrote:

Hi so i got this mid 2009 macbook pro 13" from my friend, when i opend it i saw that it was using an hdd not an ssd so i get online bought an ssd and when i plug it in it wasnt sowing up in disk utility so i formated the ssd nothing and i think its because of the mac os version with it is el capitan. So can anyone help me?

What are you saying ...

The 2009 boots fine into ElCapitan

Your new SSD is in an external enclosure and you fail to recognize it when connected to the MBP in an effort to format it (?)

All new drives need to be formatted... for your 2009 —GUID partition type, HFS+ file type.

Once formatted you can clone the internal drive to the external drive before you open the machine to swap drives

How to create a boot clone How to create a boot clone - Apple Community

see MacSales/OWC https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook/2009-2010

rares229 wrote:

No. So i got the macbook whit an hdd but its not working anymore

So i want to swap the hdd to ssd

But the ssd is not recognized in disk utility when formated with macdrive11

For windows. The ssd is formated hpf+ with that tool

Well, I can not speak to your third party app... macdrive11

the file format needs to be HFS+

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