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By secondary windows drive : I mean in windows 10 I have a C drive the main drive. and I have a D drive (the secondary drive for extra storage). I'm curious if I put data onto it or copied data from it would windows 10 have any sort of issues with that data or even the entire drive?

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[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's fine. I used to dual boot the two too, and I use a bigger secondary HDD. It's linux that has the issue if the drive is in NTFS format, I used to get files and folders corrupted all the time and only windows could access and delete them. Not a problem with ext4, but windows can't read that. Dual booting is not a great long-term plan because it's updates are known to delete grub, or that's what I've learned from other lemmy users.

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can second this. Also had a HDD (ntfs) for dumping data onto. When switching from Linux back to Windows, Windows would often show "repairing Drive :F" on startup. Certainly not a great feeling. So while nothing happened to my data yet, I purged windows off the PC. Drive still is ntfs, no issues as long as I am not reading and writing from alternating OSs

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I had to copy everything to an external drive and change HDD to ext4, then copied back. Nothing corrupted since.

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