The plan is to do away with Windows, but I would prefer a failsafe. How big a catch is it to use NTFS with Zorin in that case?
I do not know. 
I have not really run into very many and the very few I have seen on this forum were quickly resolved, though I would need to go look at those threads to remember the details.
I would be remiss to say it is 100% clear, so I pointed out that there is always going to be some element of risk.
But in truth, you are likely secure either way that you choose; so choose what feels right to you.
That is no longer unallocated space. You can reboot, launch File manager and see if it shows in the Left Pane...
just restarted...drive is not showing up in "Other Locations"....
And Gparted shows it again as unallocated....Im guessing I needed to wait for the "Operation Pending" process to complete?
Can you show a screenshot of this?
It is not ongoing anymore. What I see is the screenshot I sent in the previous message. back to square one it seems.
You may need to confirm that the formatting is proceeding and finishing. I know that Gparted will not actually begin the formatting until you confirm it (To protect data).
where it says "0 Operations Pending" it said "1 Operation Pending" but I restarted.
ok, how do i confirm it? It seemed actioned to me
I will opt for a Graphical Guide since visuals may be more helpful than posted words:
I took the initiative to click the + button next to the settings cog and created a new partition. After that the options are available and I am now formatting the drive
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Wow, very helpful. A lot to learn.
Many thanks to both you and @Aravisian for your speedy and comprehensive help!
I have now finished formatting the drive, it still didn't show in "other locations" so I figured I needed to press the "Play" button which mounted it and there it is!
Being brand new to Zorin not only am I blown away with the OS, its so fast it looks amazing and very usable. I much prefer it to Windows already! But even better is what appears to be the support community. You guys jumped straight in with responses to my issues and patiently sorted everything out for me.
Thanks very much! Hopefully man others can learn from these steps!
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Many thanks for this, but it's gone a little over my head! I'm not sure what improvement this would make as the drive seems to automatically be mounted now each time I start up. I don't have to do anything, its just showing in "Other locations". Interestingly, I've been having an issue with the "eject" button missing from the system tray, but when I clicked on this drive the button suddenly now appears...which it wasn't before when I had my usb flash drive inserted.
So in terms of the drive I don't know if I need to do anything else as I dont think its causing me an issue? That said, I've not put anything on that drive yet and so it is sitting empty.
I got up to about here:
I got lost after that. What does "create a few lines below the system entry for root" mean? I wasn't very techy when it came to windows and so am profoundly out of my depth on linux!
This is what I got when in inserted the first command:
And this is what came up in Gedit:
Ok I got the UUID put into Gedit (do I keep the < > arrows either side of it?)
Where do I find the mount point path?
Do I just create a new "folder" for this in "Home" or do I need to do this via the terminal?
Big problem.... i applied the change and saved the gedit document then rebooted. It passed the Lenovo logo stage as usual and then hit a blank screen with tiny text in top left corner saying:
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit"
to boot into default mode.
Press enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
I press Ctrl + D
It then says:
Reloading system manager configuration
Starting default target
Failed to start default target: Transaction for graphical.target/start is destructive (emergency.target has 'start' job queued, but 'stop' is included in transaction).
The text is tiny. There is nothing I can do to get out of this from what I can see. If I manually shut down and restart the same appears. I've had to pull out a spare computer to write this.