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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. Hi, I had the same problem, "code 10 error, device failed to start".