I was running out of space on my Mac Mini (late 2014) so I ordered the [product|IF171-043-3]
I used the external SATA USB adapter to erase the drive and format it to Mac OS journaled, extended. I didn’t install an OS or anything because my plan is to use it as a second, non-bootable drive.
When I opened up my Mac Mini, I found there was no SATA drive, only the blade-style PCIe (250GB). So alas, I went back to ifixit and ordered the [product|IF171-015-2]
I installed the new SATA 1TB SSD and booted up (so now internally I have the old 250GB PCIe as boot drive with Mac OS Catalina, + the new SATA 1TB Crucial SSD).
Disk Utility does not recognize the drive at all. I also tried booting into recovery mode and using terminal to run ‘diskutil list’ and it does not show up. I also tried resetting NVRAM and still nothing.
Is it possible my Mac won’t recognize the SATA drive for some reason, since I have a PCIe drive as my primary bootable drive?
I was running out of space on my Mac Mini (late 2014) so I ordered the [product|IF171-043-3]
I used the external SATA USB adapter to erase the drive and format it to Mac OS journaled, extended. I didn’t install an OS or anything because my plan is to use it as a second, non-bootable drive.
When I opened up my Mac Mini, I found there was no SATA drive, only the blade-style PCIe (250GB). So alas, I went back to ifixit and ordered the [product|IF171-015-2]
I installed the new SATA 1TB SSD and booted up (so now internally I have the old 250GB PCIe as boot drive with Mac OS Catalina, + the new SATA 1TB Crucial SSD).
Disk Utility does not recognize the drive at all. I also tried booting into recovery mode and using terminal to run ‘diskutil list’ and it does not show up. I also tried resetting NVRAM and still nothing.
Is it possible my Mac won’t recognize the SATA drive for some reason, since I have a PCIe drive as my primary bootable drive?