Folder will not show at all.

[Sir Lags A Lot]

So my friend and I were wanting to transfer his fortnite files to my pc so we wouldn't have to use his data. His external drive wouldn't take 4gb files and there was a bunch of important stuff, so couldn't reformat it. So I have a 500gb hdd that I pulled out my my pc and into his. Copied the folder and when we went to open it on my pc, the folder wouldn't show. We though it wasn't transferred correctly. Plugged it back into his, it was there just fine. Messed around with sharing and then put it back in my pc. Nothing. I've tried showing hidden folders in the file explorer settings but no use. Solutions?

[Pickles von Brine]

That is odd. Shows on one computer but not the other? Is that safe to assume?

If that is the case, it could be something wrong with Windows itself on his machine. That can be a bit tricky to fix. There are solutions but I would prefer to see if anyone has smoething to say first before going that route. 

[danomicar]

2 minutes ago, The Apocalyptic Gamer said:

So my friend and I were wanting to transfer his fortnite files to my pc so we wouldn't have to use his data. His external drive wouldn't take 4gb files and there was a bunch of important stuff, so couldn't reformat it. So I have a 500gb hdd that I pulled out my my pc and into his. Copied the folder and when we went to open it on my pc, the folder wouldn't show. We though it wasn't transferred correctly. Plugged it back into his, it was there just fine. Messed around with sharing and then put it back in my pc. Nothing. I've tried showing hidden folders in the file explorer settings but no use. Solutions?

If you are on the same local network, why not just transfer it via windows explorer?

[Sir Lags A Lot]

Oh wait another detail. His windows in NOT activated.

[Sir Lags A Lot]

1 minute ago, danomicar said:

If you are on the same local network, why not just transfer it via windows explorer?

And yes I could do that as I brought my router. Idk how to though. I'll look it up.

[TheKDub]

1 minute ago, The Apocalyptic Gamer said:

Oh wait another detail. His windows in NOT activated.

 

That wouldn't matter.

 

Double check the drive connections. Also take a look at what format the drive is. For Windows, NTFS or exFAT are the two you'd want to use. (Not FAT32, as that has a 4GB file size limit)