To answer the question “laptop does not detect the drive” as follows:
Also bought a Crucial 525 SSD drive and yes my mac did not recognize the drive in Finder nor in disc utilities.
I studied the advise and did not get a good answer why the drive is not detected.
Not being scared of computers by now, I again tried to format the drive in disk utilities and saw the view button in the left hand top corner and when opened it revealed “show only volumes” which is the standard configuration and “show all devices” which I then selected and problem solved.
The disk was detected and I could format it.
Hope the info will help.
Gurupvd