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Technically you can delete the Windows partition and it would be fine. However you should backup your files in it if your Windows partition was all about C:\ drive. If you are gonna backup anyway, just do the backup and format the whole disk and start with a clean slate. It's better if your disk is not formatted as NTFS.
If you have D:\ drive and want to delete C:\ drive and only keep D:, you should also delete System Reserved and EFI partitions as well. You can create another partition with this place but that would make 2 partitions in the disk. Normally Gparted (or any other partition program) can merge partitions without you losing data but I have no idea if they can do this with NTFS as well. So, I would go with the first option here. Backup everything and format the disk with a Linux file system. If you are gonna use it for mostly media files, XFS could be a fine choice. If you want it as a general separate disk, go with ext4.
If you want to learn more, I can answer your questions or link you Wiki pages.