Reddit reviews SANOXY USB 2.0 External 2.5-Inch IDE HDD Enclosure Case for Laptop - Blue

That is a laptop IDE pata drive, so a 2.5" IDE enclosure would do the trick.

edit: Like one of these

Get one of these cheap ext HDD enclosure to convert your old HDD to an external HDD.

Do this first and then just use it with this and you just scored yourself an external HDD :D

you just need to get an external case like this one :
http://www.amazon.com/External-Enclosure-Case-Blue-Laptop/dp/B000FNBYKW
put the hard drive in it, then use the usb connection on any other computer

Use one of these if the hard drive is IDE
http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY-External-Enclosure-Case-Laptop/dp/B000FNBYKW

Or one of these if it is SATA
http://www.amazon.com/SATA-Hard-Drive-Case-Enclosure/dp/B001AAVA08/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1345236847&sr=1-2&keywords=external+hard+drive+enclosure+2.5

*Edit: You don't need to utterly destroy your hardrive unless you are disposing of it, most likely. Don't do so when you can just take the drive out and send it for repairs without it. You can also use the mentioned adapters to remove questionable stuff before sending your disk away with your laptop, assuming you don't mind taking it out and attaching it to another computer. On most laptops, removing the disk is a five minute process.

There are basically 2 kinds of laptop hard drives (there are more, but 2 that generally matter). The only important bit is how it connects to the machine. In the vast, vast majority of any vaguely recent machine, it will be one of these. Even if it isn't, it often really IS, just with a special casing making it less obvious.

Laptops more than 6 or so years old may still have IDE interfaces. Here's an enclosure to drop these in in order to attach them via USB to any other computer and extract data from them: http://www.amazon.com/External-Enclosure-Case-Blue-Laptop/dp/B000FNBYKW

Newer laptops will have sata. Here's the enclosure for that: http://www.amazon.com/SATA-Hard-Drive-Case-Enclosure/dp/B001AAVA08

Any decent tech will already have both, and as you can see they are not exactly expensive. Even if the laptop won't power on, if the disk still spins, anything on it is at risk of being accessed. If the disk won't spin, this will probably prevent casual access, but it is not a guarantee that no one, anywhere, can access it.

I have seen many machines which the owner believed to be "dead" but which still powered on, and perhaps failed to boot. If your computer stops working, don't just leave it out on the curb, be responsible with your data or someone else may get it. A computer left on the curb will almost invariably be picked up, often by someone who knows what to do with it and not the trash men.

Inside those hard drives are spinning platters. If you want the data to be at least reasonably safe before you dispose of it, make sure those platters will never spin again. While it's tossed around that someone could re-assemble the data on actually damaged platters, it's extremely unlikely they actually will. Take it apart, bend the platters, or just go at it with a sledgehammer. Or wipe it properly, and resell it. But only if you know what you're doing.

You can hook the HDD into an external drive enclosure (check compatibility for IDE or SATA) and hook it up to another computer. Gain privileges/access to the files, and delete.