MacBook Pro A1502 internal OWC Aura SSD Mac OS issues
I have an 13” MacBook Pro (A1502, beginning 2015) which I want to hand over to my son. I had installed an OWC Aura SSD as the internal drive with Catalina on it which worked perfectly fine as my boot drive. However, I erased and have tried to install a fresh copy of Catalina (and newer compatible Mac OS’ses) but I can’t get it to work.
I have read multiple stories on the forums but I can’t understand what is causing this. I have contacted OWC for help as well. The fact that it originally worked means it should be possible to get it to boot.
I have tried these things:
• Erasing the drive with the correct GUID partion map. It shows me a volume and the drive
• Downloading Catalina (with the right link) directly from Apple
• Installed Catalina on a bootable USB stick and started up from it and tried installing it from there
I get stuck, after I fill in my iCloud details and then I get the message that ‘the software is not available’ or something like that, even though I have the installer files and so on, copied to the bootable USB stick. Which boots fine.
I think it has something to do with the partioning map or something like that. Who knows how to solve this? And it is possible, I had it working perfectly fine until recently.
Many thanks!
MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11