For two days,I've tried to install Zorin Lite on Windows 7PC. Both Rufus and Ventoy are terrific in putting it on my flash drive (which has been tried with every port). But when I go into Boot or Bios, to boot up for the first time, my options don't work. Yes, Hard Drive brings me back to my screen. USB-HDD (the suggested option) brings me to a hanging screen saying SYSLINUX 6.06. The options bring me back to Windows. Hard Disk Priorities in Bios has same problem. Trust me, I've used every option in Rufus and Ventoy. But when I get to Bios or Boot, I don't get anything even approaching SanDisk or Zorin or Rufus or Zentoy.. Any suggestions?
@Ponce-De-Leon Fast and Secure boot only arrived at the time of Windows 8, the OP is using Windows 7.
@harolnick Did you shrink C:/ partition to make free space for Zorin? Additionally, if a notebook, many manufacturers used mbr (master boot record) in formatting drives and also tended to create 4 partitions all marked as Primary. If this is the case, no GNU/Linux will install as the maximum number of Primary partitions that can be created on a system that is using mbr is 4.
@harolnick - sorry to hear abour your installation problems. Since your laptop has Win7, I imagine it must be quite old - is it possible that it has a 32 bits processor (instead of 64 bits)? If so, Zorin wouldn't work on it, at least the latest versions which are only available for 64 bits.
Check out this other thread if that is indeed the problem: