Big Sur recovery doesn't detect one particular external drive.

So i'm trying to install Big Sur on my laptop, and all goes well, i'm booted into recovery mode, i check the drive manager thing, i see the external ssd i want to install to, however i didn't have a connection, so i added the kext, made the trackpad work, however then i noticed the drive wasn't picking up anymore. other hdd's and ssd's are, just that one particular drive isn't. it was working fine before, however it isn't now. the drive is connected via USB, and works perfectly fine on windows, tried reformatting it a few times, adding some kexts to make some ssd's work, however nothing worked. resetting nvram also says the nvram is not ready so can't really do that.

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