Spanner, thank you for your useful contribution. Pat pat pat.
At one point the drive went in, so it can come out again. I'm not going to sit here and tell someone how to look for screws by pulling the little rubber feeties off, checking join lines for clips, etc. If the guy wants to get in, he'll do it. If he doesn't want to get in, then he won't. When I said "if it were mine, I'd open the case" then I'm not ignoring Biz' "inability" to get in to the case, I'm ignoring the value he places on the case. Value of my data > value of my case, that sucker's going to get opened. Value of Biz' case > value of Biz' data, then we're all wasting our time anyway.