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Internal SSD is recognized as external hard drive I have installed a new internal SSD in my MacBook Pro and now it is shown to me as an external hard drive. What can you do about it being recognized as internal? New built-in hard drive: OWC Aura SSD (480GB)
You’re seeing the default setup of the drive. Its been awhile since I’ve put one in if I remember correctly you need to erase and re-prep the drive. Restart your system and go into Internet recovery (left Command, Option & R keys), or you can boot up under an external USB drive. Press the Option key to get to into Boot Manager. Then once booted, go to Utilities, Terminal, within Terminal type the following: diskutil unmountdisk disk0 gpt destroy /dev/disk0 Close Terminal. Open Disk Utility select the Aura drive on the left pane and erase it and reformat the disk, re-install the OS again and migrate your stuff back over. That should do it.
Hey Steve, I’ve done this process and didn’t work for me. So, I continue to search for more answers and guess what… heheh… The manufacture provides some software which seems to be like a driver for the SSD. After installing this software, the mac reboot. And now it’s recognized as internal SSD PCIe Drive. :) OWC Dual Boot Enabler Because, the most part of users (includes me) are having problems to use BootCamp on this SSD. As BootCamp cannot be installed on external drives. So…. thats it. I hope this can help you.
I can’t go in Boot Manager since I updates my GPU to an RX580. So I tried all the codes with ‘sudo’ infront of it. But this is not working. What can I do more?
Hello All, I have the same problem with my MacBook, but in my case external hard drive is recognized as Internal SSD. How can I fixe it, Please ?
