Overheating A215-S7437

Before I give up and replace my hard drive (which HDDLife software reports that it's functionwell but overheating) can anyone tell me how to keep my system cool? It's being reported to heating up as high as 49C before I shut it down. Right now it's at 46C and the warning is sounding every couple of minutes despite having a laptop fan running underneith and a desktop fan running behind it. There doesn't seem to be any way to keep this unit cool despite having two fans working on this task. A little history. Before installing this software the system recently started shutting down unexpectedly without any warning of any kind. I've been using the laptop fan when at home but the overheating started occurring while traveling last month. Does anyone know of any solution other than a hard drive replacement. BTW... the built in laptop cooling fan does work.
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HDDLife also has hard drive identifying features and reported my hard drive to be a Toshiba Mk2035GSS, 200 Gb, ATA/ATAPI-7 SATAI. By removing the cover for the hard drive I get the drive operating at 31C instead of the 36C with the fan blowing on it and 46C despite having a cooling pad under it.
At your suggestion I installed HD Tune and did some testing. Three different areas reported 21, 19 and 17 bad sectors where the data had been moved away from. There are no other programs running in the background and I don't get any processor overheating reports on other software monitoring my hardware so I think I'm about to install a new hard drive. In retrospect, the botom line is the hard drive will over heat even with a cooling pad below this system. It took a 12" desktop fan blowing directly on the hard drive side of the system to keep it cool and it cooled down even more with the bottom cover removed. I did get my data backed up. Halajula! At least I'm safe no matter what happens.
You've been very helpful and I appreciate your time and concerns. Thank you.
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