[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***He smashed it with a hammer to get access to the platters, and scarred the platters with a screwdriver. ***

I pulled my hard drive from an old computer and tried to destroy it. I sat it on a cement car port, took a 6 foot long 1 inch thick steel bar with a chisel tip, and smashed, smashed, smashed! I could not break the hard drive! I bent it a little, but could not break it. Finally I threw it in a burn pile and “heat treated” it.

[TexasFreeper2009]

um.. next time you might want to try a screw driver

[ArrogantBustard]

. I sat it on a cement car port, took a 6 foot long 1 inch thick steel bar with a chisel tip, and smashed, smashed, smashed! I could not break the hard drive! I bent it a little, but could not break i

A geologist's hammer (mason's hammer, bricklayer's hammer):

would be more effective. Use the pointed end. You'll punch holes though the housing and the platter(s).