How to restore time machine disk to the original one?

I am new to the mac osx world, my macbook pro has 500GB and I used 350 GB for my MAC OSX system, another 150 GB for windows system. I partition it but made a mistake when under the OSX system, I erased the windows disk( 150 GB). When I tried to partition the disk again, it said: "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."
Now I just wanna back the 150 GB to my original 350 GB disk so my macbook can have 500 GB disk. How can I do under the disk utility? I do not know the "erase" "RAID" " restore" mean. Thanks for help!

7enzy wrote:
I just wanna back the 150 GB to my original 350 GB disk so my macbook can have 500 GB disk.
Try using the "Boot Camp Assistant" (in the Utilities folder) to delete the Windows partition.

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My school recently reconfigured/reformatted my macbook and install the school image. Now it is filled with applications that the school help us installed. Now how do i restore the backup that my time machine backups last time? Migration assistant or what? I did not change my mac, it is just that my hard disk got reconfigured. How do i restore backup without disturbing the apps my school installs?
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alazahee wrote:
I did not change my mac, it is just that my hard disk got reconfigured.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Is your user account still there?
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