How to delete original partition?

I made a partition a long time ago and used that insted of the original, which means that I have all my files on the new partition. So i want to delete the old partition without deleting any essential system files. But how?

Best way then is to backup to another HD, and start over (re-partiton, re-install OS X, transfer data from backp).

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