Windows 11 Crucial 4TB m.2 NVMe drive not recognized by Windows 11, HP Slim Desktop running 12th gen Intel CPU

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Hello, Looking for some help on NVMe SSD. I have an HP Slim Desktop (12th Gen Intel CPU) with 512GB m.2 primary/OS drive and 1TB secondary HDD. I am unable to add a 4TB Crucial m.2 NVMe via PCIe adapter (Sabrent/EZDIY) or using a USB adapter (BBY Insignia brand) on Windows 11 home edition. It shows up in the disk mgmt dashboard as unknown and when I try to initialize it, it fails to initialize it with an error msg to the effect of not being able to process the request. I have tried 3 brand new Crucial m.2 NVMe drives (all 4TB) and they all fail to work on the system. Any insights on how to res

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