Well it worked. Reformated them as NTFS and everything works. 
12 hours of copying 
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Hey, I liked Highlander 2...
Any of you guys can help me with folder sharing?
Glad that it worked! Also, keep in mind that the 12-hours it took to copy, there was a time when that took a month to complete.
That is a separate issue that you are talking about and really should be in a separate thread on its own. But your question has already been asked on the forum too, simply put, I recommend watching video guides on Youtube, on how to setup Samba file sharing.
Because thats pretty much how Linux does file sharing, it uses SAMBA, which can be installed, and there are addons for SAMBA as well that can be installed through Synpatic Package Manager. But ultimately, I recommend watching the guides, and get educated.
Just go to Youtube and type in, "how to setup Samba file sharing in linux." You will learn all that you need to know there I believe. And if you still need guidance, you can ask for help here, but in a separate thread.
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I have a partition related question:
The disk that Zorin OS is installed is divided into a few partitions. One of them is NTFS. I just got a message that i am running low on space. Can I just remove the NTFS one and extend one of the other partitions (not sure which one)?
Check using Gparted that that is not your EFI partition. You need that to boot.
How much space is allocated to Zorin OS?
You may need to clean system logs to get rid of the Low On Space warning.
Ah, almost 60gigs. @337harvey may be more helpful in helping you to rock that back and forth.
In order to expand a partition into another space, they must be adjacent to eachother. The ext4 partition and the free space (ntfs) are divided by other partitions.
Hey, well I do have windows in a separate physical disk. They never get recognized by linux (must be something wrong with windows install) so I disconnected the windows drive entirely when installing Zorin and used the Auto option. I dual boot by selecting different boot device from bios. Yesterday I reformated that NTFS partition to ext4 and everything seems to still be working. I have tried to move the boot partition, but got a warning about that and changed my mind.. What I want to do, is to utilize all the space in my drive for Zorin since having a separate partition in linux doesn't seem to be as convenient as in Windows... Perhaps I should re-install the OS doing manual partitioning if moving partitions would cause some issues down the line?
Harvey, I have since learned that you are our resident expert on partition management. It is my opinion, that you should write up an official detailed manual, or if you'd like to call it tutorial, on how to properly install Zorin OS, using all partitions types available, along side windows, or along side other linux os's, or just the OS by itself.
How to manage the partitions, how to extend, how to reduce, all of that. Cause one thing I've since learned reading your posts, there is even more for me to learn. So if I can get you to come in on Saturday and do that, that would be great.
Sips coffee 
Joke
But seriously though, I would super de duper appreciate a full writeup, and I know other's would as well.
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Hm. sounds like a complicated task. you lost me along the way. i think it will be just easier to reinstall the OS. I've only had it a few days, so not that much in it. So unless it looses my 2 NTFS drives again, it shouldn't be a problem. Can you tell me how to set up the partitions during the install? (like the really simple version, preferably with pictures :D) Before I just used the auto option, and this is where it got me. I can not really understand how or why is the NTFS partition there
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well I have pieced something together from various posts that looks like this:
50 mb for EFI, 40 gb for root and the rest for /home.
You sir, are truly, without a doubt, amazingly stellar! 
And I have seen your Stapler, Jeff took it, he is using it as a therapy tool, to try to hide the pain of not having Zorin OS LITE. How's he doing with that you ask? I don't know, lets see.
(We both turn around)
Jeff has the stapler in staple wall mode and is sledge hammering the wall with stapled notes on TPS report policies, while yelling out the words, "I'm sick and tired of people forgetting to put their cover sheets on their TPS reports, hopefully this will remind them to straighten up and type right!"
(Turns Back Around)
Not very good apparently.
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