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 did actually. Thank you, I’ll reach out if I need help.

As a fellow Linux user: thank you for mentioning the OS as well and your overall pretty detailed comment. :)