HD makes every System crash with BSOD

Computer Forum Storage Devices
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Hi Guys, I Gotta say I sure had my wacky PC Problems, and alway found a way to deal with them but the following is the wackiest stuff I have ever experienced in my entire Life.
If anybody could help me out he would earn my eternal gratitude.
The Problem got a little history which I will post later, along with my complete system info, but for now:

I have a harddisk that makes every system (i tried 2 till now) crash with a blue screen of death saying “A thread tried to release a resource it did not own”.
I had some system crash 2 days ago but i got it running again now, complete format, new windows and everything, BUT: one little difference: As soon as I plugged my data HDD onto it again the System would crash as soon windows boot was complete.
This Drive contains about 100GB of very valuable Data so what i did was: Go to the store, buy an ICY-Box, put in the harddrive.
And this is where it gets really wacky!!!
I could start windows normally without turning on the ICY-Box, but when i now turn on the Box windows starts these little Task icons that always appear when you plug in USB-Storage stuff, and 2 seconds later: CRASH!!! BSOD!!!.
And whats even more weird is: It did the exact same thing when i plugged it to my friends PC.
The Thought of some mean virus was close so I installed Norton Virus, Antivir and Zonealarm (not at the same time), but none of their agents could block the Process that made my system crash. Of course I can’t scan the HDD for viruses cause i can’t even use it.
If anybody ever saw something similar or could tell me how he would deal i would be very grateful. The Data on the HDD is really very valuable to me so PLEASE! HELP ME!!!

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Ok, here is the simple solution. DON’T USE USB STORAGE.! Really, I am not joking!
A more reliable solution is to get an old computer, put the drive in as a slave, do a LAN and share the drive. Or, to put it another way. Use another computer as a data server. It does not even have to be a modern OS, just one that can read the slave drive. By the way, what is the format ans size of your data drive? Is it a standard IDE? If so, it can go in the old computer as a slave.

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Thanks, but

  1. I bought this portable case just in this situation, thought maybe it would work then. I know its stupid carrying your hard drive around in your bag, but i never did that and the disk doesn’t seem to be physically damaged.
  2. I’ll try using it as slave later, but i don’t think it’ll work
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Ok, i installed Acronis true image, and its able to acces the disk. Could have thought of that before. Thanks anyway