Impossible resize the hard drive after windows 8.1

Hello,
One week ago, I installed windows 8.1 in my macbook pro early 2011. The audio device didn't work and after see that, I have tried all the tips that I read in Internet to fix it.
In this way today I have decided to eliminate the windows partition but... when I go to disk utility and I enter in partitions setting, I see that 250 gb are unasigned...
If I writte disk util in the terminal I see this:
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            500.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS                         0 B        disk0s3
   4:                        EFI                         104.9 MB   disk0s4
But when I go to disk utility app there are only 2 partitinos. One is Macintosh HD, and the other one is disk0s1.
How can I resize my macintosh HD to the full space (750 gb)?
Even more, the problem is that if I try to convert the 250 gb unasigned in one partition of for example type MS-DOS or MAC-OS plus (with register). The disk utility app says that the chosen size aren't valid for the system of archive selected.
Thank you and sorry for my english.

I try to use Boot Camp assistant to eliminate the windows partition. But it didn't works to eliminate windows 8.1 because the option to recovery the original size are impossible to chosse because the mark button is disabled.
For this I have eliminated the windows partition with disk utility... I will try to reinstall OS X but firstly I will make a backup in Time Machine.
Thank you for the help.

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