My new ssd doesn't show up in Disk Utility please help

Hi all,
I had a HDD failure in my mbp (2012). It completly crashed. I was able to make a copy of some files through Disk Utility. (Note: at this point i could only enter disk utility after start up not in the actual OS)
So i bought a Kingston ssdNow v300.
What i did is the following:
Put an clean Mavericks install on a usb drive.
Put the ssd in the MBP
Pressed the option key to boot through the USB and the mbp didn't see the usb.
Booted up through command + R and the computer did see the usb however it did not see the new SSD.
Tried booting up again with command + R and it did see the SSD in the disk utility (after a long load time of recovering the disk data)
Now i knew i had the reformat the ssd in order to install OS X again.
However all the options are greyed out! I can't choose erase/reformat nothing.
Also i rebooted several times and sometimes the mbp didn;t see the ssd anymore... and sometimes it did.
Also if it does see the ssd in the disk utility and i close and re-open disk utility, the ssd in gone!
So sometimes it is recognized and sometimes it isn't.
I am not able to reformat it through an external exclosure or anything.
Also I tried deleting osx mavericks installer on the usb drive and put Os recovery assistant on it. (Which the computer did recognize)
But also this didn't work at all.
I really don't know what to do anymore.
I was hoping to be able to just simply reformat the ssd through disk utility but it doesn't give me this option.
please help is appreciated!

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