Small drill bit or grinding bit in a Dremel (other small drills are
available) should allow you to take the head off. If it's a drive, chances
are that once you've taken the head off the screw, the actual shank will
unscrew without any trouble because there won't be any pressure on it any
more. It's not as if it will be rusted in place, or if it is, you're
probably wasting your time anyway.

HTH
Mike.

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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.

These are not the tamper-proof variety, so I don't need a hollow-point
Torx driver (if they even make them that small).

The first thing that occurred to me was to place a small Torx driver
in the holes and tap the end lightly with a mallet. That could do
more harm than good though, as this looks like very soft metal. It's
also a working disk drive case, so I don't want to damage the drive.

I could try a tiny screw extractor, but the risk is that it wouldn't
work and then the remainder of the screw would really jam things up.

Any other ideas?