3d ago

I have my computer dual booted windows 10 and linux mint 22.1 I just noticed that I can view my secondary windows drive can I safely write to it?

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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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.
- Dual booting is not a great long-term plan because it’s updates are known to delete grub
  That problem is overblown. I've been dual-booting Windows and Linux for around 20 years now, I think I've had that happen...once? Over a decade ago? And to fix it you just use a Linux live USB to boot back in and repair grub. People bring it up every time dual-booting is mentioned as if it's the end of the world, but in reality it's a very rare problem and is easy to fix if it happens.
- Thank you. Don't have to worry about writing to the windows drive. Just copying data off of the windows drive to the Linux drive.
  But for windows deleting grub. Yeah it's a danger. But when end of life for windows 10 comes I'll not longer use windows.
- 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
  
  I had to copy everything to an external drive and change HDD to ext4, then copied back. Nothing corrupted since.

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