When I try to copy files or folders from external-to-external drives using file explorer windows 11

I wish I could but the HP all in one that I purchased last year only had a 250 gb hd and it only has 73 gb of space left on it after the software has been added. I have the seagate to use for my programs to be installed.

just use your computer as a mid way stop, take it from the hard drive onto your computer onto the other hard drive

Sorry I should have been more specific. Copying files from a seagate 4 tb hd to an

External Solid State Hard Drive 2TB, Hard Drive Solid State External USB3.1 Type-C Hard Drive 2000GB Compatible with PC, Laptop and Mac 2TB.

What I am doing is copying from the Seagate to the solid-state drive. Some of the folders copy just fine others copy fine and then some of the sub folders are empty when I check them. Then also if I select a video file to copy when I try to open it on the SS drive it errors as corrupt but it works on the Seagate. When I drag and drop a large folder with a lot of sub folders some of the sub folder copy and other do not. All the folders and sub folders show on the SS drive but some are empty. When it is copying it does show the progress bar. One of the large folders shows a 4-hour copy time. The progress bar does show the whole time. The solid-state drive was formatted to exFAT according to the properties. Easystore hd is formatted NTFS and now looking at it I am wondering if that is the problem and I may have to re-format the SS drive.

What are these External drives?

If you create/save a new NotePad or WordPad doc to the external does it then show on that drive?

When using File Explorer to copy/move a progress bar is shown, and if you are not seeing that your process is not working