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I am trying to format an Aura Pro X2 480Gb SSD on a MacBook Air running Catalina 10.15.7 using Command +R. The MacBook Air is from 2017. When I boot up using Command +R the drive does not show up in Disk Utility. When I boot up in Command Option +R it does show up. I formatted the drive using Command Option +R but it will not allow me to use Time machine to restore the original drive to the new drive. I also tried using Command +R to check the drive on an Early 2015 MacBook Pro. Again the Aura Pro X2 would not show up despite the fact that an identical drive was already installed on it previously without any issues. The MacBook Pro was running 10.15 at the time the other SSD was installed. Any ideas as to how I can get the SSD to show up using Command +R?
Sorry that’s not possible! You need to first boot up under Sierra and install it on the OWC SSD then you can upgrade to Mojave, and then make the jump to Catalina. There are a few reasons you need to follow this path as you first need to prep the drive Under HFS+ and with Mojave upgrade the systems firmware and also upgrade the SSD format from HFS+ to APFS.
