I am not sure how they broke that disc into so many pieces though, in my experience they are incredibly strong and rigid.
The discs make great wind chimes too.
Harbor Freight has a $3 security bit set if you have drives with special screws.
Not to say spelling corrections are never useful, I think they often are, but I don't understand the mindset that upvotes them over comments that actually participate in the discussion.
- remove top plate of drive - a number of heavy blows with a Sledgehammer. - incineration.
This usually does the trick.
and from the caption it sounds like it actually did that to itself which seems impossible unless maybe the platter was made defectively in the first place ... ? (note it was an "old" 40gb drive - also looks like 2.5 inch)