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I'll give it a shot this weekend when I have a few minutes, and see how it goes. The drive is still warrantied, so beyond data recovery (and I did have key parts of it backed up) it's more of an inconvenience than a disaster.

I've never considered that a drive being too cool could result in failure ...

I basically mean restoring the partitions and using the disk normally.

I certainly don't know enough to comment on the weird values. While I do live in Canada, I generally don't compute outdoors!

The power off retract count also seems very high in terms of ratio. I do occasionally have crashes ...

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Drive letters are referring to partitions or volumes, not drives. Unfortunately the common expression is "drive letter" and not "partition letter".
I updated my short posting regarding the use of smartmontools. Please read it again. If this is not understandable, please complain and ...

Ok, after a busy week I got back to this, but I can't get the smartctl command to work. I did the smartctl --scan command to ID my drives (since there is no drive letter assignment for the disk I'm having issues with), and it gave me the fol:

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl --scan
/dev ...

Woke up this AM and found that one of my external HDs had suddenly disappeared. Drive shows up in Disk Management, but partitions are gone and Win 10 (64) thinks there's no data/drive on the disk. Any program I use to examine the disk (device manager, SeaTools, etc.) does not see the drive label ie ...