Delete blank Boot Camp partition?

I deleted all the data off of my boot camp partition, so Boot camp assistant doesn't recognize it as a Windows partition to delete it. Disk Utility will not allow me to delete the partition, either.
To be fair, I did this when I was not good with Macs. I was stupid, but now it needs to be fixed.
One thought I had is this:
since there is still space allotted on it, I could reinstall Windows on it, and then go back through and delete it. But I would have to do it outside of Boot Camp assistant, as it does not recognize the partition as a Windows formatted disk.
Please help. Thank you so much.

What did you do in Disk Utility to try and delete the partition? What was the error message? Did you try this by first booting to the Recovery HD?
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

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