usb loader gx

So, today I tried removing the disc drive from my wii mini to free some space for some mods I want to makr and everything worked fine until I tried to load a game with USBLoaderGX. I get the "An error has occured, eject the disc drive yadda yadda" error and the wii just hangs. Why does loader gx...

Is this the ONLY tool that allows me to run Wii tiles without a disc drive? I use USB Loader GX with my ROMs installed on my SD card and Gamecube titles stored on various 32 and 16 GB flash drives. Looking at Portablizemii, it looks like it REPLACES those tools, rather than simply shutting off a...