My main obstacle in this procedure was the electronic screwdrivers. I managed to find slightly less sophisticated ways to get the outer six screws off.

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As you can see the final screw is in the middle, underneath the large label. You have to peal back the label (voiding the warranty). And to get my exploded hard drive, I needed to get it off in a normal manner.

Electronic screwdrivers only come in very small sizes. The end is shaped like a starfish, just with 6 legs. They are very small, and only a few larger sizes exist for other applications.

This is the pack I ended up getting. I cost around $8 for the set.

Next, we will look closer into our exploded hard drive.

Once all of those screws have been undone, the cover just lifts off. As you can probably imagine, it was quite hard to get good shots, with was was basically a mirror inside the exploded hard drive.

The orange colored stuff you see around the edge, and a little bit like a line with a kink in the middle is a sealant. Hard drives are completely clean inside. Due to how close the heads run to the disk, the smallest piece of dust can act like a grinder, literally cutting huge gouges into the disk. Gounges that are bad enough to render a disk unusable amy not even be visible to the naked eye.

This view of the inside shows a little closer. You can see the big disk platter on the left and the arm and head on the right.

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