Hacking USB Loader GX Won't Recognize HDD...Sometimes?

[Goldsuit]

So I'm really new to this scene and it's been a very teeth pulling (though fun when it works) experience, but I'm utterly stumped on what to do now. I'll give you a rundown through my process. For the entire setup up to this point my HDD has been working completely fine with my Wii and I've had no problems whatsoever with the HDD after reformatting it to FAT32. Now I will say I initially messed up and installed USB Loader GX without doing the cIOS step, but my Gamecube games still worked totally fine and still do and at no point did my HDD fail to initialize. My Wii games obviously needed the step, so after finding out I skipped a step on accident I downloaded it, and I loaded my HDD up with all my Gamecube and Wii games I wanted to launch through USB Loader GX. The initial test run of Punch Out worked totally fine, then I go back to the menu to set some settings and I get hit with "your USB device is not being initialized. Changing to channel mode" or something along the lines of that.

So after about a dozen resets, confirming if the HDD still works via hooking it up with my PC, making sure it's in Slot 0 (it was and always has been) and even switching it back and forth from Slot 1, changing the System IOS in the Loader menu in USBLGX between 58, 249, 250, and 251, and reinstalling all of the cIOS...for some reason in my most recent reset, it seems to be working fine. It loaded my HDD and it's displaying all the games, but I'm honestly scared to do anything else now because I don't want it to suddenly not recognize my HDD again. The settings everything is set to right now didn't work earlier, so I don't know what's different if anything.

SysCheck is below since I've read at least 40 of these threads since starting the process of softmodding my Wii and I can tell that helps lmao. And I read in a few threads something about a Y cable, not sure what that is but I don't have one. I don't think it's a power issue since it only recently started to act up.

Spoiler

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 91287754
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 71 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 05/30/2022.