Plugging my hard drive into computer crashes everything to do with it

[SeanSparshott]

What i mean by the title, is that, i have a StarTech USB to 3.5/2.5in SATA/IDE Converter.

When i plug in another harddrive, it detects it as it should and loads up as a mass storage.

However, when i plug in the hard drive im trying to connect, everything to do with viewing it crashes, for instance, diskpart doesn't work. Create and format partitions crashes. File explorer crashes. When i plug it in, but don't use power, it detects the drive, obviously i cant access it though. Also, when i disconnect the usb, for a tiny split second, in create and format partition, i am able to see the harddrive and its partitions, however neither of the partitions have labels anymore.

HERES HOW THIS STARTED:
I was trying to dual boot linux with windows 10, and as this isn't fully operational at the moment, i was playing with the partition. i managed to install linux, and it said to reboot. So i did, and then windows wouldn't load up, neither would linux or anything, the computer hard drive has become seriously slow, but booting from a linux live usb DOES work. However once ive loaded up linux live, it can't install it doesn't get past the second part.

So, this is all of it.

 

[SeanSparshott]

Nailing it down a bit. Some how, from the linux live USB. trying Linux Mint, with this hard drive. For about 5-10 minutes, all drives were detected, but the 574gb partition which has windows 10 installed on was not able to be opened/mounted, however the other partitions which were clean were able to be. But then ofcourse, they crashed and can't detect any partitions. So, its a corrupted windows partition if i am right? How can i completely clean these if it won't let me access anything to be able to do so.