If you have a separate data drive/partition formatted by Windows as NTFS ..., you can keep it and setup read/write access to it from Linux later. Just tell the installer not to use that partition as part of the manual disk drive configuration dialog. However, Linux itself has its own file systems and needs to be installed on at least one partition reformatted to use one of them (usually ext4, but there are other choices) and that reformatting will erase all preexisting data on that partition.
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I really appreciate the work you've done but I'm very curious to know that how can I still save my files without formatting the data in storage.
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If you have a separate data drive/partition formatted by Windows as NTFS ..., you can keep it and setup read/write access to it from Linux later. Just tell the installer not to use that partition as part of the manual disk drive configuration dialog. However, Linux itself has its own file systems and needs to be installed on at least one partition reformatted to use one of them (usually ext4, but there are other choices) and that reformatting will erase all preexisting data on that partition.