I've never installed Linux before, so I was looking for a good, free, Windows program for formatting to ext4 and creating a Linux mount point. Windows 10 doesn't seem able to format ext4, so I've download a free program called
which formats to ext4, but doesn't create a mount point (whatever a mount point actually is), and I'm not 100% sure that the ext4 format here is correct, so I'd like to try a recommended and known to work Windows program, if possible.
Thanks for any answers.
If you go into the install Zorin option from your USB stick and select "something else" you should be able to change the format of your desired partition, set the mount point, etc all without having to do anything in windows.
To create & format partitions, "Disk Management" should be pre-included in Windows and has worked well for me.
You don't need to format the partition to ext4 in Windows though - to do that, and create a Linux mount point, as @NickS says it's probably better to do it from your Linux USB stick!
Are you trying to do a dual-boot installation or just completely replace Windows?
I created the partition in Windows 10 (I'm new to Linux, so I used the Windows software I was used to, which wasn't smart of me) and Zorin didn't give me an option to format (it was greyed out) or install the mountpoint. Turns out I had to, when I was in the Zorin installer, I had to delete the 50 GB partition that I'd created (created with Windows), and then when I used the Zorin installer to turn the now 50 GB of hard drive space into a new partition, then I was given the options to format it to ext4, and to install the mount point.
[quote="Leonos, post:4, topic:55889, full:true"]
To create & format partitions, "Disk Management" should be pre-included in Windows and has worked well for me.
You don't need to format the partition to ext4 in Windows though - to do that, and create a Linux mount point, as @NickS says it's probably better to do it from your Linux USB stick![/quote]
Yes, I've just learned to let Linux do the Linux things.
Dual boot with Windows 10. Here is my other thread:
Anyway, this problem has been solved now, in future I will always use Linux to create and use Linux partitions. Thanks everyone.