Replaced dead NVME hard drive, now neither Windows 10 or 11 recognizes the new drive.

[Windows 11]

My Computer is a HP Laptop PC 17-by4000. The dead NVME hard drive, which is the only drive on this laptop, came with Windows 10 installed from the factory. I installed a HP NVME hard drive (I actually took it from another laptop. There had been some data on it, but to prepare for installing in the HP I formatted it.)During Windows installation, Windows gets to the screen to choose the installation location for the drive and the only drive it sees is the USB drive which it is on. The target drive is formatted NTFS.The Bios does see the new drive. I checked the bios many times to ensure that the

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