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Don't use an NTFS partition?
You can use NTFS as read/write under Linux, it's just not absolutely safe to fix if you hitna corruption snag, which will almost inevitably happen.
You can also use any other filesystem that works on both Linux and Windows. Use FAT32 if you want to be super safe. I believe BTRFS works as well. There's lots of combinations, just look them up.
I have personal experience with BTRFS and Windows. And that experience is that it's roughly as stable/complete as NTFS is for Linux. 6 of one and a half dozen the other. I can't recommend either situation for guaranteed stability long term between systems if one really needs to swap between the OS's frequently while accessing all the same files.
So use either and do ensure you make proper backups, with some reasonable history (retention policy)
I've found exFAT to be a bit smoother in operation, but really old devices dont care for it (SD cards).