No wait: you have reason. I tried with both Linux Mint and AnduinOS (both not with Ventoy) and everything works. This happens in my opinion because i did chkdsk /f (previously i did chkdsk WITHOUT /f) but then i tried Linux only with Ventoy..
However i solved. Thank you and sorry for the time lost 
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live@anduinos:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 1,7G 1 loop /rofs
sda 8:0 0 931,5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 931,5G 0 part /media/live/DATA
sdb 8:16 1 14,3G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 1 1,8G 0 part /cdrom
└─sdb2 8:18 1 10M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
nvme0n1 259:0 0 119,2G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 100M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 118,6G 0 part
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 534M 0 part
Just to show. Now i am on AnduinOS live USB -no Ventoy- and everything works.
I use Ventoy to try distros ISO saved on that hard drive: here is why i was not able to see changes after have done chkdsk on Windows in the right way...
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Ah, I see. Yes, that was confusing. Yeah, when using Ventoy on that drive it's "in use" so you cannot mount it elsewhere. So, even though you can use the drive normally even after installing Ventoy on it, while you're using to boot an ISO it will use the whole of it; you have to decide one or the other.
It's best to have one dedicated USB to boot from.
No worries, making mistakes is the only way to to learn!
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Only to clarify. On that drive i saved distro Isos. Ventoy is on a pendrive. When i boot Ventoy i choose the distro from that drive.
But i think one thing. That is i depend on Windows because in recent times i had problems with 2 hard drives and in both the cases i had to do chkdsk -one time without /f was enough- to repair the drives and continue to use them on Linux.
I think that if i use Ext4 format i would not had problems.. but Ext4 is seen only by Linux. Hard times for me to make decisions.. But at the end i think i will reinstall a Linux distro on my system internal drive.
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Mmm, so it looks like Ventoy locks the drive where it reads the ISOs from. This explains this here, from your earlier post:
sda
└─sda1 ntfs DATA 20C632AFC63284D6
├─ventoy 0 100% /cdrom
└─sda1
I would recommend using EXT4 only if you have Linux installed. If you set up dual boot or intend to plug the drives in another computer (I guess not the case if they're internal), then it's best to use NTFS.
As for testing different ISOs, I think it's best to use a dedicated USB drive just for that. Knowing now how Ventoy works and what issues it might cause, it's probably best to only boot from it. Even if you have the ISOs stored in the internal drive, copy them over to the USB and boot from there.
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