Q: New SSD does not show up during El Captain install

Hi!

I have just installed a 80gb Intel SSD in my gf's Macbook Pro late 2011. Started it up, and went into internet recovery, used the disk utility and formatted it to mac os extended journaled. I can't use the internet recovery to install OSX, as it tries to install OSX Lion, and that's not available anymore in the app store. So I created a USB bootable drive with OSX El Captain.

When I start up and hold 'Option', the only disk that shows up is the USB with OSX El Captain. The SSD does not show up. And when I start the install, I can't find the SSD in disk utility nor when selecting disk to install OSX on.

Why does it show up in internet recovery and not during install???

Any possible solutions to this?(I'm not in a country with a genius bar).