After it sparked the drive spun up and the unit worked again.

How did I find it? I tapped on all the Surface mount parts with an insulated probe until C34 sparked. I installed a test drive into the Maxtor case and found that one of the surface mount capacitors was bad at C34 near the power connector. I ended up swapping the 200 Gig PATA drive into another External USB enclosure and was able to access my data and use the drive again.

I checked the power supply and it was fine. The green light was on but no noise or a faint pulsing sound could be heard in the case. My Maxtor 3200 / ul200h0140101 also failed to be recognized and failed to spin-up. So, if you've tried everything else and your about to shell out big bucks for data recovery, try shaking the bejeezus out of it! It's not a very sophisticated solution but it's cheap! I guess it kind of push started the motor or dislodged something that was stuck, either way I'm very relieved. Then i heard the low buzzing sound speed up and become a healthy working hard drive sound! So then I took it home, moderately p***ed off, figured i had nothing to lose (also i think i had read mcookaz post on this thread ) so i plugged it in to the power and just shook it! I shook it, while holding it flat, in a semi-violent kind of clockwise and anticlockwise rotation kind of way for about 10 seconds.

They concluded that the motor inside was seized and referred me to a data recovery specialist who said it would cost at least €700 to repair. Took it down to a local repair place where they took the case off and tried to plug it directly into the internal power yokey in a desktop tower. Low buzzing sound and hard drive heating up more than usual. In order to determine whether your drive is one of the lucky (or unlucky) ones, feel free to phone up Seagate with the serial number in hand, and if you haven't already updated your anti-virus software, now would probably be a splendid time to do so.Hi, I had the same problem, 'code 10 error, device failed to start'. Apparently, the molar virus is one that get its kicks by searching for passwords to online games (World of Warcraft included) and sending them back to a 'server located in China,' and as if that wasn't enough, it can also disable virus detection software and delete other molar viruses without breaking a sweat. That's right folks, you may not even need to open any suspicious emails or surf over to dodgy websites, as an undisclosed amount of drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer located in China were reportedly sent out with the program already loaded. How convenient - your shiny new Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 may have come preloaded with a nasty virus right out of the box.

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