Do you mean use HaxChi for playing or at least installing games? I don't know how I even ended up with Mocha instead of that, it must have been because of whatever guide I was following. For a while now I thought I'd made a horrible mistake, like how Kafluke's guide mentions Mocha requires you to open more stuff, especially with installed games, and that it's really only good if you don't want to buy a DS game. Which I already did, so it sounds pointless for me to have Mocha instead of HaxChi. Is it not too late to start using HaxChi as my standard CFW ticket then?
Actually, I feel like an idiot for not mentioning this in the first post, but someone encouraged me to install CBHC since it saves a little time and he found it perfectly safe. But after reading all the warnings from people who thought it wasn't worth the risks, I got paranoid of bricking it and uninstalled CBHC. I think that might have around the time I started having problems. Kafluke mentioned some people have had corruption issues with using CBHC with Mocha, and I think it might have been automatically opening Mocha when I had CBHC.
Is there any way I could test if the cable or external hard drive are fine? Sometimes I've had to take the hard drive with me and I worried about how durable it was