> the Windows drive is probably formatted in NTFS so the Linux instance will need drivers to support it This hasn't been true for decades now, thankfully! Read

> the Windows drive is probably formatted in NTFS so the Linux instance will need drivers to support it This hasn't been true for decades now, thankfully! Read-only NTFS support has been built into the kernel for a quarter century already (1997, 2.1.74, and a better one in 2002, 2.5.11) - and full read-write support for 4 years now (2021, 5.15).