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So you need to be specific, conventions like C and D are windows specific and refer to both drives or partitions.
Part of installing Linux is repartitioning your disk. If you have a separate partition for your files in Windows that’s fine, but you’ll need to make sure you don’t overwrite it. Linux will not access your D drive in the way you typically have, every drive is mounted to a directory. It also has its own native filesystems that are different than Windows. In other words, you won’t likely keep using a Windows partition for your files, at least not long term.
Most of that still applies if you have your files on a different drive, but it’s more work to accidentally overwrite them.