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as it played out , that drive went belly up anyway - maybe cos it overheated up high, andway windows crashed told me " a paramater has exceeded its value" - dell code for overheated maybe ? and would not then reboot. So In a mild panic I put in the clone, in the original HD location - it works fine, and does not have any extra weird drive letters either. I planned to hustle dell for a new HD but as they were shut for the weekend I put it in a sata-USB caddy, read the smart data, and then ran a 7 hour full media scan via another PC that had WD HD diagnostic software installed.- after 7 hours teh extended test said that it was all good!
Historic smart data showed a max temp of 51 degrees and i think dell bios steps in at 50 degrees to say that there's a problem. so no more HD in top 5.25 bays,except where I run with PC case side off.
Smart data Value threshold worst
airflow temp 70 45 49
HDA temp 30 0 51
given what you say about " dont ever name them" I wonder if W10 tried to do something helpful, like an auto-defrag of the extra partitions, & kicked of the whole debacle. - guess I'll never know. more likely it was overheat - read/write errors- crash - panic - but hardware OK once it has cooled down again.
anyway I can now assert that Macrium makes a very good clone!
I now am staying with " if it ain't broke don't fix it" so I will use that other drive some place else, sometime. I have system imaged the current drive OK
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