Mojave cannot install on OWC SDD (Aura)

yes this same thing happened to me. i don't get all those options on the left either, i only get like 3 things on the left side panel, and i have NO "operation" tab. I'm wondering if my Aura is just too old to be updated. Im on a MacBook pro mid 2012 retina, auraSSD. on another note, when i installed sierra, I cloned it to an external hard drive platter which forced it into NTFS, which i then cloned back to my auraSSD. but i just did the same thing with mojave and it actually created APFS on the platter drive! which is crazy, but now knowing it is forcing APFS I'm so worried it will brick the auraSSD, as thats what happened with high sierra to a lot of people. they actually lost the whole drive.. so I'm not sure whats going on

Here's what i did to solve this: My 2013 Mac Pro (6,1) has a 2TB Aura SSD. For this older SSD OWC does not provide new firmware. Upgrading or installing Mojave gives an error since it is a third party SSD. Luckily i still had the original Apple SSD. I created a standalone USB Mojave-installer and did a fresh install on the original SSD, which i temporarily installed in my nMP. After completion i carbon copy cloned this SSD to an external SSD. This external cloned SSD booted as well. I re-installed the Aura SSD back in the nMP and cloned the fresh Mojave install back onto the Aura. Success! Maybe a PRAM reset is recommended. Runs like a charm.

Neither Apple, nor any of us, are going to make Mojave recognize that OWC replacement SSD. That is between you and OWC. Perhaps they have a firmware update available for that drive. Call OWC support.

Just did this and worked perfect! Thank you

Hi Alfonso

I just noticed on the OWC knowledge base site that this fix doesn't work on Mac Pro-back to square one for me!

Thanks

Pete

I did that on myMac Pro. Swapped the old drive back, updated then replaced the OWC. Does not work. OWC needs a kick uo the •••. There's problems everytime there's a major OS upgrade.

Thanks. I'm going to take a very deep breath. Back up for dear life and hope i can do a proper restore.

I understand!!!! Always a concern, but have faith in Time Machine if that's what you use.

Let me know how it goes.

Pete

Awesome!

Had the same issue, and problem solved.

Thanks heaps!

Good on ya mate! 🤗😎