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a. Installation type.
If dual-booting with windows you should first use Disk Management in your Windows installation to shrink your C:\ partition automatically but first run chkdsk and defrag. On the space that is created you should create an Extended Partition. Booting in Live mode with Zorin, start the installation procedure from the shortcut on the live desktop – this is what has always worked best for the author. Don’t let the installer set up Zorin automatically for you – choose the last option, the ‘Something else’ option. This will launch Gparted (Gnome Partition Editor). Within the extended partition create a swap area at the END of the extended partition equal to the amount of physical memory (RAM) present in your system, at the BEGINNING of the extended partition create a /boot partition of 512 Mb formatted to ext4, immediately after that either create a 30 Gb partition for the ‘root’ (‘/’) partition to hold the system (30720 Mib) then whatever space is left between ‘/’ and ‘swap area’ should be formatted to ext4 and marked as ‘/home’ this is where all your personal data will be kept for you and other users of the system (each user having their own named /home folder just like that other OS), including any Windows applications you decide to install
using WINE (Wine Is No Emulator).