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I had a dualboot on my last laptop for a long time and seems they've toned the overwriting of the bootloader way down since the invention of EFI. For the last 8 years or so it occasionally changes the boot order to default to Windows, every time these larger updates come in. But it doesn't seem to overwrite anything any more.
Other than that, I'd also recommend Backups. Windows doesn't come with drivers for these filesystems, so it can't read Linux files. But theoretically things could happen to the data on a harddisk nonetheless.
Y'know, there’s a little part of me that suspects that just because Windoze will not read certain file systems for the user doesn’t mean it doesn’t read those file systems. Especially now that data theft is their business model. I know it’s a little paranoid, but the OS may very well be reading stuff it claims to not recognize. Just food for thought.
I don't think Microsoft are that clever or malicious in that way. There are third party drivers available and I don't know what all the Linux parts in Windows these days are able to do... So it's definitely possible. But I think you're looking more for a targeted attack with this. Like an agency or a hacker singling you out because they know you have valuable data on that filesystem. But Microsoft's business model is more fishing for the easy targets and funneling data en masse, not the niche stuff... That might change at some point one day once the Linux subsystem automounts filesystems or something like that.