[Anonymouse]

Assuming Win 10/11, click on Start and type 'disk management' to bring Disk Management up. It may need a simple volume to be created, so you can assign a drive letter and format it.

The fact that you're getting the connection sound shows that it is at least being detected, but without a drive letter Windows can't deal with it. I had this problem with my 4TB M2 SSD - it was detected, but not showing as a drive and so I couldn't do a thing with it. Once I created a simple volume it was detected like any other drive. Whew, I thought, abandoning nightmares of returning it as defective. It now lives quite happily in my laptop, split 2 parts Win 11 to 1 part Linux Mint (I cloned the original 2TB SSD, and Win 11 has not objected. Linux, of course, couldn't give a toss. ).

Having said that, you're right - P & P was supposed to do away with all this nonsense.