HD makes every System crash with BSOD

[Mahone]

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!!!

[Blitzkreig75]

If you have the resources, you can try pulling individual files off the 'infected' drive using Linux.

Install pretty much any Linux distro on a seperate HDD. Set the 'infected' drive up as a slave and boot into Linux. From there you should be able to copy file-by-file onto a CDROM.

As for the cause of the drive acting 'weird', I'd venture some spyware/virus has defiled the data. Doing the above mentioned, you might be able to isolate exactly where the corruption is, since viruses/spyware cannot run so easily in Linux, (there's more to the explination about malware and Linux, but you can be reletively certain if it IS malware, it won't run in Linux).

EDIT: If it's a failure of the hard disk, and not malware, this method probably won't work for data retrieval.

[Mahone]

Thanks Blitzkreig i'll try to read it under Linux later.

[Mahone]

Ah... and does anyone know a good linux antivirus program. Don't want my dads webserver to be corrupted. ;-)

[Mahone]

Ok installed Acronis True image and its able to access the disk. Could have thought of that before. Thank you anyway Blitzkreig. Maybe i'll post later what the Problem was. If it was a virus it was some real mean shit.