Games have stopped loading off of USB

[Hasney]

So I'm on my BC PS3 and all of a sudden, games have stopped running off of USB. I'm using the same device that they were originally on when they were working and PowerDefragged it, so I'm not sure what's changed.

Has this happened to anyone else ever? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks for any help.

[SP193]

So I'm on my BC PS3 and all of a sudden, games have stopped running off of USB. I'm using the same device that they were originally on when they were working and PowerDefragged it, so I'm not sure what's changed.

Has this happened to anyone else ever? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks for any help.

What do you mean by your games have stopped working?

I'm assuming that you mean that your games currently won't run, and are freezing at either a black or coloured screen.
But we still need to know what you saw before you concluded that your games were not working anymore.

We also need to know which exact version of OPL you were using.

Here are some things you could do:
1. Re-rip and reinstall your games.
2. Defrag your USB device with another disk defragmentation utility like the Auslogics Disk Defragmenter, other than Power Defragmenter (Since it seems to have a problem with not reporting file fragmentation to the user).
3. Perform a disk check before doing any of the above steps, if possible. This is to prevent errors that might have been caused by filesystem damage.

[magimog]

Your defragging is what caused your error. God knows why you attempted to format a USB drive. There is absolutely ZERO benefit in defragging a removable drive, especially on a Windows machine.

In the future, transfer all data off of the drive, format it and retransfer the files back.

[SP193]

There is absolutely ZERO benefit in defragging a removable drive, especially on a Windows machine.

This isn't really related to the topic of the thread, but it's to prevent the transmission of incorrect information: Why do you say that there is no benefit in defragmenting a removable disk on Windows?

Whether a disk gets defragmented or not depends on the utility used.

And not to mention that defragmenting a disk might take less time then shifting the data off the disk and back on (Especially for USB HDDs).

[Hasney]

Your defragging is what caused your error. God knows why you attempted to format a USB drive. There is absolutely ZERO benefit in defragging a removable drive, especially on a Windows machine.

In the future, transfer all data off of the drive, format it and retransfer the files back.

I defragged after I was having issues as the OPL guide reccomends a defragged drive.

What do you mean by your games have stopped working?

I'm assuming that you mean that your games currently won't run, and are freezing at either a black or coloured screen.
But we still need to know what you saw before you concluded that your games were not working anymore.

We also need to know which exact version of OPL you were using.

Here are some things you could do:
1. Re-rip and reinstall your games.
2. Defrag your USB device with another disk defragmentation utility like the Auslogics Disk Defragmenter, other than Power Defragmenter (Since it seems to have a problem with not reporting file fragmentation to the user).
3. Perform a disk check before doing any of the above steps, if possible. This is to prevent errors that might have been caused by filesystem damage.

It's a black screen after boot, v0.8 OPL. I'll give the rest of the post a try.

[JNABK]

Your defragging is what caused your error. God knows why you attempted to format a USB drive. There is absolutely ZERO benefit in defragging a removable drive, especially on a Windows machine.

In the future, transfer all data off of the drive, format it and retransfer the files back.

Im a Windows user and just let me say, that defragmenting a 1TB drive with over 200 games on it would certainly be out of the question to transfer all those games, reformat and re-install all those games...just to ensure its thoroughly defragmented!!

That might be good advice for small flash drives/hdds, but should not be something anyone recommends for all drives.
Power defragmenter and Auslogics are 2 very good defragmenting programs that work very well, although there is some who have a preference over the other.

I have used both and see no differences in the out come of my files......but thats just my experiences. I do agree that it is NOT a good idea to use the Windows built-in defragmenting program, as it is not very good for defragmenting as the others are.

[TnA]

1. Don't use the 'Power defragmenter', but Auslogic's tool instead!
2. If you can, try to use a OPL-revision which is known to be working...

Btw.: Are you sure you didn't changed ANYTHING at all?
What about your PS3s FW? Did you update it in-between?

[JNABK]

1. Don't use the 'Power defragmenter', but Auslogic's tool instead!

I disagree.....i use it and have found NO difference in its ability to defragment an entire 1TB USB HDD, than the Auslogic program does.

Its a matter of the user's preference, if its a better app than the other.
Power defragmenter is more a command-line (with a GUI to run it in a command shell) app and has no reporting, but certainly is more than capable of defragmenting.
Auslogics is a GUI that displays a graphic for the user to view while its defragmenting and has more selective choices, making it user friendlier than Power defragmenter, but certainly isnt any better (IMHO) in performance.

[TnA]

<-- Just to point it out. I wrote my reply, before your's was visible to me, so the Auslogics-Recommentation wasn't because of your post...

I disagree.....i use it and have found NO difference in its ability to defragment an entire 1TB USB HDD, than the Auslogic program does.

Well, you disagree for you personally, but that doesn't mean there are no differences... (even thought it didn't happened in your case)
I suggested someone the 'Power Defragmenter' before too (before I even knew about Auslogic's tool) and even used it myself for my PC-HDDs.
Still,... I scanned later on (after I read about the problems here) with 'Auslogics' and still found fragments (most of the time related to folders, rather than files it seems) and in case of the person which I suggested the 'Power Defragmenter' to, these also were fragments seemingly related to folders, which caused a few games to not work correctly.

Its a matter of the user's preference, if its a better app than the other.

You're right indeed, but only if there isn't/wouldn't be any difference in the result...
Btw.: It ever is the users choice, even if the programm produces faulty results.

Power defragmenter is more a command-line (with a GUI to run it in a command shell) app and has no reporting, but certainly is more than capable of defragmenting.
Auslogics is a GUI that displays a graphic for the user to view while its defragmenting and has more selective choices, making it user friendlier than Power defragmenter, but certainly isnt any better (IMHO) in performance.

That's what you say just because you have not seen a proof yet, that the 'Power Defragmenter' might produce faulty results...

[SP193]

Well, you disagree for you personally, but that doesn't mean there are no differences... (even thought it didn't happened in your case)
I suggested someone the 'Power Defragmenter' before too (before I even knew about Auslogic's tool) and even used it myself for my PC-HDDs.
Still,... I scanned later on (after I read about the problems here) with 'Auslogics' and still found fragments (most of the time related to folders, rather than files it seems) and in case of the person which I suggested the 'Power Defragmenter' to, these also were fragments seemingly related to folders, which caused a few games to not work correctly.

I have noticed something like that too during my tests after a user reported many games failing (He used Power Defragmenter, and reported no file fragmentation).
But it also occurred with regular files on my drive.

Worse, further checks of the disk by Power Defragmenter kept reporting the disk as being totally defragmented.

I have to say the Power Defragmenter does get the job very fast, and it does give the same effect as the Auslogics Disk Defragmenter does (Provided that it does finish the job good and proper ).

Professionals and power users should have no problems using Power Defragmenter... but newbies might not be able to use it properly since it never reports incomplete file defragmentation to the user.

But whatever it is, it's agreed that the disk defragmentation utility that comes with Windows is junk and should not be used....

You're right indeed, but only if there isn't/wouldn't be any difference in the result...
Btw.: It ever is the users choice, even if the programm produces faulty results.

I guess that it's a result of Power Defragmenter (Contig.exe) using the simple API that Windows (And the Windows defragmenter?) uses too.