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Hello Stas!

 SM> Meanwhile, the colder your drive is, the longer it will live. I try not
 SM> to warm my drives over 35øC.

True. Yes, integrated-circuits are best kept in cooler temps.   
Meanwhile, my HDD seems to settle at 32C for most of the time.

 AA>> Index verification completed.
 AA>> Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.

 SM> It only says that these files are currently open. This is normal. Try
 SM> HDDscan. https://hddscan.com/download.html

Thx for the tip.

Meanwhile, CHKDSK C: /F /V /R did its magic successfully.

https://susepaste.org/23321526

But I did a Cleanup and Defrag before that.

Now the T60 seems noticeably faster too.  The defrag was  
probably the most salient issue.  I don't recall the last time  
I even bothered to check defrag of the smaller C: partition.

The H: partition had no CHKDSK errors at all.
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