Question about dual booting Linux + Windows on different SSDs

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Don't know where to draw the line and say this is either a Windows post or a Linux post, but I'd rather post here because this community is more active.

To make the story short, I'm new to Linux and trying to make a jump to it in the future, but for now I decided to dual boot with W11 on my other drive until I understand what I'm doing.

Anyways, before I did a clean install of Win11, I had 2 SSDs like this:

  • Disk0 - Windows installed
  • Disk1 - Fedora installed

I wanted to clean my system and start over, and also wanted to try Endevour OS so I could later try Arch, but after doing a W11 clean install, my SSDs look different (see picture posted)

Now, I feel like my question is really basic. I specifically checked that W11 needed to only install on Disk0, so I don't know why Disk1 has some partitions:

If I remove/format Disk1, will I lose the whole OS and prompt me to install Windows again? Or should I just install it again regardless so I can install Linux (EOS) on the other drive?

Sorry if this is not a Linux question specifically, sorry if it's a stupid question and thank you in advance for any responses!

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I think this is what's going on. I'm guessing the smallest partition is the boot partition, the 1gb might be the Linux swap, and the 100gb the Linux install.

This points to op not using default fedora partition schema but disk1 being the fedora install across those partitions

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