SSD not recognized after aborted Snow Leopard installation

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I began installing Snow Leopard onto an external SSD (OC Z Vertex 3). After it had begun, I realized I'd forgotten to customize the OS installation before starting, and so I made the now regrettable decision of cancelling it midway. It gave me some warnings, but I figured I could just use Disk Utility to delete the partition or reformat the drive and try again later.

However, now I can't get my MBP to recognize the drive at all (nothing appears in Finder or Disk Utility). It's possible that there's an issue with the USB/SATA adapter that I'm using to connect my SSD, but I don't suspect that.

I'm not sure where to go from here - I want to find a way for my machine to recognize the drive so I can delete the partition or just reformat the drive. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated!
 
Did you format that drive to the native OS X extended first? Launch the 10.6 disk and use the menu item Disk Utility first and formatted the drive using Partition tab and creating a single partition 'Mac OS Extended' and format. Then continue with the 10.6 install.
 
Vertex drives generally don't like to go through a USB/SATA converter. Most of the time they don't work at all. I ran into a similar issue with a PC and a V3 MaxIOPs. The install tanked and suddenly the drive was no longer available. I cleared the CMOS and was back in business. Not sure if this will work on your Mac though.

The other option is to plug it into a real SATA port on a PC with an existing OS install then downloading and running the OCZ toolbox. If it can find the drive you can knock out a Secure Erase and you'll be back in business. If not, well. Its probably RMA time.

OCZ has an awesome support forum. You can get to it through their regular site.
 
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