Скачать или смотреть Strange PS2 HDD and network adapter issue

I have tried 2 WD10EZEX 1tb hard drives. The first one was successful through WinHiip but corrupted when I tried to add more content from my PC (added more than 256 games through WinHiip when it crapped out despite having it set to 48bit). This is where this strange HDD issue began. I bought a second one thinking that the first hard drive was faulty, but boy was I wrong. The second one here is having similar issues. I have tried upgrading and downgrading FreeMCBoot, uLaunchElf, and OPL, same issue persists. Formatting with uLaunch ends up unformatting the drive after reboot, and formatting with WinHiip ends up being formatted but with just the mbr partition (still a blank drive). OPL and uLaunch doesn't recognize any game files when transferred over. I'm starting to suspect a possible fuse here as the hard drive is healthy on PC. I'm frustrated and feel like I have tried everything with no end result. Any help/advice concerning this issue would be nice.

UPDATE: Turns out it was the GameStar network adaptor. I did the SATA mod to my official PS2 network adapter and all is good now.

PS2 model 300001 R
OPL 1.0
FreeMcBoot 1.966 (doesn't install to HDD due to not being formatted).
Launchelf 4.42d (latest version wouldn't write any partitions other than mbr)

Thanks for reading.