My Macbook Pro Retina doesn't see internal SSD drive

Not sure if you found a solution to your problem but I have had the same problem. I made a complete f**k up by deleting the recovery drive and then suddenly I couldn’t find my drive when wanting to reinstall macOS.

The solution I found was to use terminal. When using “diskutil info”, the drive still existed. So I created a partition in the drive with the following command:

diskutil partitionDisk disk1 GPT APFS MacOS HD 100%

Find more info here: http://www.applegazette.com/mac/pro-terminal-commands-using-diskutil/

I used GPT because this would be my main MacOS boot drive. I also used APFS as I was installing High Sierra. Lastly, I partition 100% of my drive. You can specify this yourself if you want a different percent.

With the above, you’ll fix your problem and it will reappear in Disk Utility.

Cheers!

Boot to the Recovery HD:

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

Erase the hard drive:

1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.

2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the

left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.

3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on

the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on

the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.

4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.

Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button.

Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible

because it is three times faster than wireless.

This should install the version of OS X that you had installed.

Boot from your Recovery HD. When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu. At the prompt enter the following:

diskutil cs list

Press RETURN. Snap a good, clear picture of the resulting output display and post it in your reply.

In the future, instead of taking pictures of your screen with a camera, use the direct screenshot method: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

OK, now comes the hard part:

At the prompt enter the following:

diskutil cs createVolume "Macintosh HD" HFS+ Test 100%

Press RETURN.

If there is no error when the prompt returns then reboot the computer from the Recovery HD and open Disk Utility. Verify that you now have a volume named Test under the out-dented entry named Macintosh HD. If you do, then proceed as follows:

Erase the hard drive:

1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.

2. After DU loads select your startup volume (Test) from the

left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. (If you wish, you

can rename Test to Macintosh HD.)

3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on

the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on

the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.

4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.

Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button.

Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible

because it is three times faster than wireless.

This should install the version of OS X that you had installed.

I guess that doesn't do what I thought it did. Moving on to:

diskutil cs delete B14F8861-11F5-4F58-A8A3-1A05E8158ACE

Press RETURN.

Restart the computer into the Recovery HD, open Disk Utility. Post what is displayed, now.

Can you boot OK from the Recovery HD? If so, then open Disk Utility and post what you see displayed by Disk Utility.

hey Dziagv and Kappy

this thread is just way toooo **** good. thanks alot Kappy and Dziagv, you have done things not even my country authorized apple service center people could not do. HATS OFF! to you guys, they told me they will have to replace the ssd, my macbook pro retina 15 is 11,000 Malaysian currency i bought it 2 years ago. now its out of warranty. they were going to charge me 4.5k malaysian currency to replace the SSD almost half of the actual price, that's like owning a private aeroplane where maintenance is more then the actual price, they told me that this is what the apple experts have said from apple HQ most probably in Singapore. i went straight away to the service center demanded that i be handed over my faulty macbook (i can buy a nice high spec windows laptop with the 4.5k malaysian currency) and in my mind i had decided that this is going to end of my Apple era! If you guys do want,? i can upload that ridiculous quotation they sent me.

thank you soo much you guys

Dr kumar

thanks kappy

Love you for this