Is there a way to copy from USB to HDD?

[mothmanex]

Basically, I want to know if it is possible to copy from the external usb port to the internal hard drive.'

[chesh]

In your backup manager, highlight the game you want to copy to internal and press the button that relates to copy on the right hand side (Triangle or Circle in most managers). It will ask you if you want to move it to internal, say yes.

[dlanor]

Basically, I want to know if it is possible to copy from the external usb port to the internal hard drive.'

That depends on what kind of material it is that you want to copy.

Homebrew files and folders can be copied from storage on a USB drive to an internal PS2 HDD using the homebrew program uLaunchELF (aka: "uLE") and its "FileBrowser" subprogram.

Commercial games can be installed to an internal PS2 HDD for use by HDLoader (aka: "HDL") or "Open PS2 Loader" (aka: OPL), by several different methods but doing it from a USB drive is not supported by any software I know of, and that is for a very good reason, namely that the USB port interface of the PS2 is MUCH too slow to make such installation practical.

If you do have games installed on a USB drive in and want them reinstalled to internal PS2 HDD, then the best way to do it is to connect that USB drive to a PC and extract the game ISO files (USBUtil v2.0 can extract the USBAdvance format), which you can then install onto the PS2 HDD either by moving the latter to the PC, or by transferring the ISO files using HDL_Dumb, while running an HDL-compatible installation server on the PS2 (such as the server built into OPL).

But personally I would prefer not to reinstall games from a USB drive at all, but rather re-rip new ISOs from the original discs and use these to reinstall the games to PS2 HDD from a PC, as mentioned above.

In your backup manager, highlight the game you want to copy to internal and press the button that relates to copy on the right hand side (Triangle or Circle in most managers). It will ask you if you want to move it to internal, say yes.

What you just said seems very good advice for PS3 backup manager usage, but you are now posting in a 'PS2 Game Backup' forum, so in this context what you said makes very little sense.

Best regards: dlanor

[chesh]

Oops, after reading your post, I now realize my mistake. My apologies.

[dlanor]

Oops, after reading your post, I now realize my mistake. My apologies.

No apologies are needed for trying to help someone.
You just misunderstood the context, which might happen to anyone.

Best regards: dlanor