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A SMART message from your hard drive (Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology) is usually an indication that the hard drive is about to fail. You need to contact the manufacturer of your hard drive and follow their instructions. If you hard drive is still under warranty, you will likely be offered a free replacement hard drive.
Your hard drive may soldier on for days or weeks ... but you must contact the drive manufacturer's technical support quickly and follow their instructions. They may ask you to download and run their own diagnostic software to confirm the error, which will be needed to process a warranty replacement. If the diagnostic software confirms the error but your hard drive is out of warranty, you'll need to buy a new hard drive.
Meanwhile, you should definitely backup your hard drive, or your personal files at the very least (documents, music, pictures, etc.) as soon as possible and continue to backup daily (or more frequently) as your hard drive may stop working without warning.
SMART messages point to hardware failures; they're not caused by Windows. If you're lucky, the drive's only problem is overheating, and you may be able to fix that by blowing out the dust and dirt that's clogging the hard drive. But the first thing you must do is to backup.