Windows 10: SSD not recognised.

My friend gave me a HDD that he said was clean formatted as NTFS. I was going to use it as storage.

I plugged it in and Win XP started to load.
I immediately did a shutdown and removed the HDD.
I booted and now my OS doesn't recognise the SSD A400 at all in Disk Management or Diskpart.
I unplugged the SSD and plugged back in, just in case.
I used WinXPE and that didn't show the SSD either.
I could't Clean Install because there was NO disk shown to partition.

When I boot I get . . .

In the meantime I am hopefully going to install Win 10 [ my custom installation ] on the HDD.

Any help appreciated.

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