So I've been at it for around 2 days trying to get DIOS MIOS to behave, but am at a bit of a stumbling block. Games will either freeze shortly after starting (Mario Sunshine freezes immediately after the first cutscene) or crash and shut down my Wii (Vexx does it within a minute or so, and Billy Hatcher did it within 10). I've tried multiple loaders (CFG, Loader GX, Wiiflow) and tried different versions of those. Even reinstalled DM a couple times. I figure there must be something I'm missing. I'm hoping it's not a hard drive incompatibility. It's an old WD Caviar IDE drive I put into this enclosure. It's the only one I have, so I'm hoping it's something else I overlooked.

Any help is appreciated.