HELP!!! Bootcamp Accident - 2 Hard Drives

Hello,
I have been trying to download windows 7 on to my IMac 27" yesterday when the download was complete where you have to make a user name the mouse and keyboard wouldnt work so i decided to try and remove the hard drive partition to delete windows 7 on trying to delete windows 7 i erased all the files and formated the disk under the same as the machintosh HD hard drive and it wont let me remove it and wont let me download windows till the other hard drive has been deleted. Here is how my disk utility is layed out:
Macintosh HD       <Need to keep>
     Macintosh HD   <Need to keep >
Untitled          <Need to know how to remove>
    Untitled       <Need to know how to remove>
does anyone know how i would remove the 2 that say untitled thanks and the + - for partitions does not allow me to click it.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated as need all the help can get.
Thanks

Yes its there, you can check the partition system: select the name of the mother disk (that contains your volumes), and repair the disk. The volumes can be checked but, only can be repaired from the recovery partition.
Sometimes the partition system keep stuck, you just shrink 124mb your actual partition, do aply. Then you are allow to move the others.
Your mac its in control, so Windows cannot delete a partition. You can from your Mac, via bootcamp or disk utility.

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