On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:04:51 GMT, kony wrote:

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 02:57:00 -0400, _ZZ
wrote:

I'm trying to deal with small Torx screws on a drive case. They're
about T8, maybe T7. Tough to tell cause the screws are
'pre-stripped.' In other words, there's not much edge for a Torx
driver to grip them. They almost look like rounded allen-head screws.
I'm trying to figure out how to deal with them.

"Pre-stripped" as-in, their head used to be better but a
tool has stripped it some, or pre-stripped as-in, this is an
unusual screw head that is still in pristine condition?

Thanks to all for some great ideas that never occurred to me.

I should have explained a bit better: By 'Drive Case' I meant that
this is an external USB 2.0 case. I'm not dismantling the actual
drive--it's intact, inside this case.

The original objective was to buy the external USB2 case with a larger
drive, then swap the drive in the laptop with the drive in the case.
Imagine my surprise. 'Pre-stripped' means that the original Torx (if
that's even what they are) have barely any edge...very rounded, almost
like an allen indent, but even rounder. They obviously didn't want
people messing with their drive case. I've seen tons of cases like
this, and this is the only one that uses such a bizarre screw.

Also, the screws are slightly indented. Metal from the enclosure
forms a shoulder around it. But the idea of sawing a flat-blade slot
may work. I may be able to get a small blade in there.

Then I should probably find replacement screws. They'll probably be
some odd Martian thread.