Removing a Partition from my Hard Drive

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A few months ago my friend installed openSUSE 10.2 on my Dell Inspiron E1705 with a 80 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, Window XP Pro w/SP2. both openSUSE and Windows have about 40 GB partitioned hard drive space. The problem I been having trouble getting used to using openSUSE 10.2 on this fairly new laptop and my Windows partition space is fulling up fast, with only about 30% free space (11.1 GB) out of about a total of 36.5 GB space and I'm afraid that my computer is going to crash. So my question is how do I remove my openSUSE partition and resize, or if need be reinstall, my Window XP OS? I heard different ways to do this from buying Norton Partition Magic to just going to Windows Disk Management and just deleting the openSUSE partition part from my hard drive. But I'm not sure which, if any, of this methods is the best to use. So if anybody can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
 
The easiest method would be to just delete and recreate the partition SUSE is on. You'll have 2 partitions but all the space can be used by windows.

You could use partition magic, gparted or other utility to delete the SUSE partition and resize the windows partition. It's fairly reliable but doesn't always work so there's a chance you'd have to repartition the entire drive. You can't use windows disk management unless the drive is set up as a dynamic drive.
 
So Cromewell how would you suggest I delete my openSUSE partition? Also I have backed up the documents from my hard drive to an external hard drive.
 
If you've got what you need backed up I'd use gparted or partition magic and try to resize it. At worst then you just have to reinstall windows which isn't a big deal.
 
Thanks Cromewell I'll try using one of those programs. I know that gparted is free and partition magic cost $70, but is one better than the other?
 
partition magic is probably a little more user friendly but for functionality I think they are pretty close.
 
Cromewell said:
If you've got what you need backed up I'd use gparted or partition magic and try to resize it. At worst then you just have to reinstall windows which isn't a big deal.
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Cromwell can you give me a good link to the GParted website so that I can download the right software and tell me what to do to download the right software for GParted. I don't think I download the right software GParted because I'm my copy doesn't have any startup files.
 
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