In linux disks are more like files, do lsblk -f to see drives and their filesystems, ssds and hdd uses something like /dev/sda and nvme uses /dev/nvme0n1, u can try sudo mount windows_disk_name /mnt and then files from windows disk should be in directory /mnt
Maybe try void linux? More diy and little bit harder cause of runit so u will learn how booting process works maybe, void is really stable but still rolling release