MacBook Pro Late 2013 SSD failed

I am dealing with this issue after trying to upgrade to High Sierra OS and it freezing during the install. Well after the power off and reboot the SSD drive internally seems to have died or is not being seen by the MacBook Pro anymore. I have been searching for days for a solution on fixing this. I will try a new internal ssd drive. But last night I had an external drive hooked up and I used another MacBook to make a bootable USB with Mojave on it and installed it to the external. But before I could do this I was getting the same issue you are having with the missing update to that drive. If you format the external in the new AFPS it will then let you chose that drive in the OS install and then let you upgrade all the way up to the newest. Hope that helps. I am still stuck on if to buy a new drive and if that will solve my issues because I do not want to bring my Mac to apple to have them charge me more than it is worth to fix it.