Freezin ? on reading apploader

[M tha MaN]

Hi Guys.

I got an Seagate Barracuda ST340016A HDD for my GC.

So I connected it via IDE2Exi and I can see my games in Swiss (r94). But when I want to start one game I see no gameicon (which I would see using my SD Gecko) and it seems to freeze on "reading apploader 33%".

My rips were made some time ago on my Wii with WODE and all games are in *.iso format.

So what can i do to play games off HDD ?

Btw: Games work from SD Gecko.

[infact]

try the standard things... (use other cable with 80 pins, format or defragment the partition)

[M tha MaN]

The drive was formated than games were copied.

But they were in folders so i tried copying all games into root of the drive and deleting the folders but still same problem.

Tried defragmenting (or how it is said(0% fragmented)) but still same problem. I'll buy tomorrow an 80 pin IDE cable and then I'll report.

[emu_kidid]

M tha MaN, try an older version of Swiss 0.1 and let me know also.

[M tha MaN]

Hi.

Bought that 80pin IDE Cable, still same issue.

Tried Swiss 0.1 rev62, still stuck on reading apploader. Swiss 0.1 rev52 also freezes on reading apploader...

My IDE-Exi is in Slot B, in Slot a theres a GC 251 Block MC (original Nintendo).

Tried my IDE-Exi in Slot a (only rev94), same issue.

Tried another HDD (broken WD400)...at least here it shows the icon and it does start the game but blackscreen and freezes.

Is it an HDD issue ?

Edit: I formated ist with FAT32Formatter and copied games onto that drive, the problem still exists.

[emu_kidid]

try formatting with different cluster sizes.

[M tha MaN]

Which tool should i use to do that? win7 just wants to fornat it to ntfs(its a40GB HDD)

[M tha MaN]

Here a little feedback.

It seems that it is an HDD-issue. Got som older HDD's and tried a Seagate Barracuda ST340014A and now it works.

So there might be a little difference between Seagate Barracuda ST340014A an Seagate Barracuda ST340016A.