Hello, I have been doing IT work for a good little bit now and I have came across a problem. Luckily it isn't a customers, but it's one of my own old hard drives.

Literally had an ex grab the laptop one day and the whole "all you do is mess with this computer blah-zay blah-zay" and smashed it on the ground. I was able to recover the hard drive, which has precious data on it.

With my IT work, I have adapters to USB for data recovery, I get how all that is, no problems there, but the 2.5 is not functioning even with extra power wired to it. I believe the smashing of compromised it.

So my question at this point is:

Can I actually take the round discs of the HDD out and replace them into another functioning 2.5 unit so that I may attempt to recover the data?!

I will go to all lengths and any visual FAQs or instructionals/instructional videos would be HIGHLY appreciated and would be further knowledge of data recovery gained on my part!!! Thanks in advance!!

Here is a photo of the HDD itself : http://ubuntuone.com/6rcsMyvyJLPEOtYH12rZra

No.. best advice is take to a lab, there is almost certainly damage that is not DIY.