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A warning to Notebook (Laptop) owners!:
I can only speak of HP Note/Netbooks but this may also be true of others. Basically what HP does is make a System Partition – this would normally get created with Windows 8/10, and appears at the start of the hard drive. Next comes the partition with Windows on it (C:\ drive), then a ‘system restore/drivers’ partition, and lastly media recovery creator to create DVD’s to reinstall the original OS to the Notebook. All of these partitions, even the FAT32 ones, are flagged as Primary Partitions – this prevents the installation of any other Operating System so you need to make some hard decisions on what to do. My advice would be to create the reinstall media and save in a safe place then delete that partition which does that. Regardless of how many drives you have, you can only ever have 4 primary Partitions. You will need only ONE primary partition to be created for Zorin after you have used Windows Drive Manager to shrink C:\ drive.