I just installed the SSD and I cannot detect the SSD in Disk Utilities of the recovery disk. Even trying to restore from time machine backup it cannot find any disk it can restore to. I am restoring Mac OS X Lion backup and using the Lion bootable USB stick.
MacOS – Macbook Lion Recovery Disk Utilities cannot detect newly installed SSD
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Best Answer
diskutil listto see that your drive is being recognised. It should list two disks, one being your bootable drive, the other your SSD, and provide you with a disk identifier (such asdisk0). If it doesn't show up, check that you have installed it properly.diskutil partitionDisk disk0 GPT JHFS+ MacHDto correctly set the partition map to GPT and create a HFS+ Journaled volume. Changedisk0to the appropriate identifier for your SSD. You can rename the 'MacHD' volume later in Disk Utility or Finder, if you wish.You should now be able to pick up the disk in Disk Utility and Time Machine to restore your backup.