Cannot open hard drive and it freezes other applications when it is attached, cannot view content

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I recently had 750GB Hard Drive as a secondary drive in a Notebook (preloaded with files and folders as an external), and created some sort of system failure.

After the Second HD was detached, I was able to recover the Notebook to running condition. However, I cannot begin to fix, or even examine this HD because it causes problems within whatever PC I try to plug it into.

It causes other random processes to freeze when it is attached. The moment I unplug the HD it all systems return to normal.

I would like to retrieve the data on HD. Actually, I would like to clone the entire drive if possible. But when I run programs like Recuva to access and/or fix the drive directory the HD when attached to the PC doesn't allow me to open Recuva!

The moment I disconnect the faulty HD the Recuva recovers.

I tried attaching the HD in both within an eSATA enclosure and a USB enclosure, the results are the same.

I am running Windows 7 Professional on both PCs.

Notebook: Dell Precision M6400 32-bit
Desktop: Dell Optiplex 960 64-bit
faulty HD is a Seagate 750GB

Please help
 
So the problem sound like this: when you attach external hard drive to your Precision or Optiplex and use Recuva your system freeze? Is this correct?

Just explain one more time the history of this HDD, you were able to load it with files before, correct? How?

Have you tried to attach this external HDD to say, Optiplex, does it freezes right away, or only when you start Recuva?