Dual Boot Win 7/Zorin Version Update and Partition Help

[carmar]

The only thing I am aware of is saving the home partition. I don't know if that necessarily addresses all your questions. Please see:

How to reinstall Zorin without removing /home

You will of course installed Zorin using the ‘something else’ method, where you have ‘/’, ‘/home’, and swap. Boot your live media to do a fresh install, when it gets to the installation point, choose the ‘something else’ - bottom option of installation page. GParted will launch and what you do is select the partition with ‘/’ filesystem - from your first install this will be 30720 if you followed my installation guide in the unofficial manual for Zorin 12 or you may have made it bigger, but it…

Something else that may interest you:

Dual-booting Windows with Linux the non-traditional method

To save the least heartache, the best way to dual-boot is the non-traditional method, promulgated by Matthew Moore: [ - YouTube] My long-winded version: [How to install Zorin 9 alongside Windows 7 using Easy BCD - so Windows...] Whilst my video is older windows and older Zorin the principles still apply!