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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.
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.