Please clarify because that's not the same issue.

The issue here is NTFS partitions seen as RAW (in Disk Manager) so the drive is not accessible. But the HDD drive (hardware) itself remains...

So, what you say is you can't fix it because those tools don't see anything to fix. (Exactly what happens with windows own chkdsk). That makes sense and would render those 3rd party tools useless......

Hey, guys. I've just found this page ( 16 Windows 10 Anniversary Update Issues How to Fix Them ), where the NTFS/RAW problem is mentioned and it says two free disk utils can "fix" it.

Maybe, it's...

A bit off-topic but nevertheless...

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It's sad, but Microsoft really should revise the image they project about privacy intrusion... I...

As posted in TweakGuides.com, there are updates for W10 including 1607 (Anniversary edition):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12387/windows-10-update-history

Nothing is explicitly...

Roll back to 1511 while you can.

I wouldn't do that. The problem is in Windows not in your drive. And in this thread at least one user has said that even formating the drive hasn't solved the issue.

It's sad but I'm not going to EVER fill up a Microsoft Account... (and less because of this reason).

Nevertheless I've checked that when you press the roll-back option in windows configuration you...

I think I also suffer it and here you have a link to the very same problem reported by other user in reddit forums

I suffer those exact symptoms:

HDD Seagate External Portable Drive 1TB USB...