HD strange behavior....please help!

[Flikstik]

Here's my problem, the HD works as far as I can get into HDL and see all my games, but none of them work for some reason. Every game in my list worked just fine before and even stranger is when I try to go into the browser, it just hits a black screen. If I detatch the HD (or disable auto-atad patching) I can get into the browser fine. I have narrowed the problem down to an issue with the HD itself, I had a spare HD laying around and that one works just fine. I can get into the browser, view the contents of the drive, just like normal. What I can't determine is what exactly the problem is with the drive. I've reinstalled the sony hdd drivers which goes smoothly but didn't fix the problem. Anyone here had a similar problem?

Just so you know before you post possible solutions, please be aware that there is NOTHING wrong with the console itself, the network adaptor, the chip, the chip bios or the memory card, because a different drive I tried worked perfectly. The problem is strickly the HD itself, I just can't figure out what is causing it.

[Chandler]

Try with a proper unpacked HDL... If you patch HDL, use unpacked HDL to apply to

[Flikstik]

The problem is not HDL, the HD itself is muffed...like I said I can't even get into the browser screen to look at the HD/Mem card.