MacDawg wrote:
"No matter what I did, couldn't see the drive in Disk Utility
I replaced it and did a fresh install and got her back up and running
Took her old SSD and put it in an external and my MacBook Pro wouldn't see it either"
I had a similar experience with my sister's 2010 white MacBook.
I had installed a Sandisk Plus SSD into it a while back.
One day, I went to pick it up (winter and dry here), and there was a small "snap" of static between me and the computer.
I tried to boot it up and... nothing but the startup chime.
After that, the entire MB was "locked up" -- no keyboard commands (even startup commands) could be entered.
I opened it and took the drive out. then connected her cloned backup (I created and maintained that using CarbonCopyCloner).
Now -- with NO internal drive at all -- the MacBook would start and run normally.
I was able to take another SSD, then use CCC to clone the backup to the second SSD.
After installing, the MacBook is fine again.
I've tried connecting the bad SSD to my desktop Mac using a USB3/SATA dongle adapter. The Mac "sees the adapter", but no evidence that the SSD is connected to it. No response at all.
It might have been the small static shock -- or it might have been something else.
When an SSD "dies", it dies HARD!