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[FUZ10N]

OK guys, i would really appreciate some help on this issue. im having the same problem, the beeping/hum when my 500gb maxtor basics is fired up. a green light but no recognition by windows or OSX through USB im loosing hope with years worth of graphics/music projects/music portfolio that i stupidly thought would be backed up by actaully using this drive, not thinking it would be be the thing that could potentially make me loose these files forever! iv been browsing the forum for a few hours, and people seem to be resolving the issue by using the hard drive in a traditional sense within a tower desktop PC. this hasnt worked for me, it still whirs periodically and is not recognised by the computer. im seriously considering forking out lots of money i dont have to recover these files. not worried about warrantys and such, i just need this data back. has anyone else continued having the issue even after insertion into a pc motherboard?

any reply to comfort me in my moment of loss... lol! ; )

would be much appreciated

[Englishbhouy]

And I thought I was truggling in isolation.

I have had similar code 10 problems since updating to SP3. But it also coincided with my wife accidentally downloading XPantivirus 2009 which for those reading is actually a virus, the minute I saw it loading I pulled the USB to protect the 3200 files. Oh dear!

You can keep trying to get the drive to recognise and occasionally it does. I went out and bought a replacement drive and have been for over a week now switching the 3200 on and off whilst connected. Eventually I heard it start and was able to transfer my files (thank god!)

Will now break open the case and install as an internal drive as I have nothing to lose, but is it an IDE or sata drive??

So for those struggling still get a new drive and then keeping switching the power on an off (for the drive only) it worked about six times for me, good luck and the only way I got rid of Xp antivirus was to restore the whole PC after weeks of registry cleaning etc.

It does seem coincidental though that many on this forum had problems as the drive reached two years old or around the same time oct-nov 2009 - conspiracy????????

[Wayne B]

Conspiracy?  No, I don't think so.  IMO, just a crappy product.  No more Seagate products for me.  Fool me once, etc.

[hilka]

I used my 3200 24 times to back up my documents. The drive probably ran a total of 4 hours in backup time total. Then a code 10, and the rest is history. 

What a piece of junk!!!  I won't being buying Seagate or Maxtor ever again.  I also made sure that the hard drive I just bought wasn't made by them under another name.

Chris

[AlanM]

Englishbhouy - it is an IDE drive inside.

[molson]

This is going to be mostly whining, I hope it helps a little......I had the first 6 years of my sons life on this drive and it is gone!  My bad for trusting the device and cleaning out my C: drive.  I really thought I was protecting my photos this way.  I just checked and through seagate or best buy it is between $1200 and $1500 to recover the data.  BACK UP YOUR STUFF FOLKS!!!!!!!

[eman]

I had the same problem.  The 3200 went incommunicado.  It appeared from other comments that it might be an outdated driver situation.  But with plug and play, that shouldn't make any difference unless the repeated updates or new OS (eg Vista) created an incompatibility,  So, I took an unused computer and re-loaded it with an original version of Windows XP.  Viola --- the 3200 was present and accounted for.  Until, of course, I transferred all of its files to a new drive, and then junked it.

[griffin]

My Maxtor 3200 recently stopped working with the code 10 error.  I tried deleting the driver and adding the drive but had the same problems (slow to boot, and drive not available).  I saw the possible solution on this forum to replace the power supply (on my drive this was a 12V 2A DC output powerpack), I bought a 3rd party powerpack  at an electronics store this afternoon for $29 and hey presto, the drive is now accessible again.  Before you shell out $1000 on data recovery, or start cracking the drive case open, try this.

Make sure the powerpack is matching output voltage and current capacity, 2A is at the high end of the ones that were available to me and I had to try more than one store.  The one I purchased was 12V 2.5A (more capacity is OK) and had multiple plug types.

Good luck.

[spanky1]

Just had the dreaded code 10 error last night.  Before I crack my case open, I want to try the power supply option.

I checked the power supply with a voltmeter, and the voltage was 12.3, and the amperage was 1.3.  Is this voltage 

or amperage enough to cause my problems?  What is the tolerance?

Thanks a bunch.

[spanky1]

I just borrowed a power supply from a friend of mine.  His belonged on a Western Digital external drive, but was made by the same manufacturer as mine.  It was the same model# and had the exact specs.  Anyway, his had a voltage of 11.95 with an amperage of 1.69.  AMyway, I plugged it up and VOILA! 

So, either the voltage or the amperage of mine was far enough out of spec to make my drive show a ERROR 10.  I'll be buying a new power supply and backing my Maxotr up much more often.