Removing partition from boot drive

Hi all. I have an 11 gig partition on my one internal hard drive, which i was using to run Microsoft Windows. I no longer use windows and would like to get that real estate back. can someone please tell me how to remove the partition, or direct me to the literature where that can be found?
thanks!
Darrell Adams

Assuming you used Boot Camp Assistant to create the Windows partition, open Boot Camp Assistant and select the option to remove the partition.

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Hey all,
I was wondering if it is possible to partition the boot drive (in my case, the only drive - running a mid-2012 MBP) without wiping it clean during the process. Basically, I need a small (50/500GB) partition that I can install Fedora on so I can use my Linux dev tools while away from home.
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b) I've seen answers on here that state that partition w/o wipe works if the new partition is created using the default filestructs (Mac OS X Extended or w/e), but doesn't go into much detail after that. Are we talking Disk Utility here?
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@blasthash:
It's interesting to see VikingOSX' suggestion, because I'm in the process of adding a LM OS to my MBPro, so I'm going to check out VB . . . . I've done a dual boot set up before using rEFIt as boot manager, which now apparently doesn't work with Mtn Lion . . . it's now rEFInd . . . so having to figure that one out. Viking's suggestion might indeed be safer, the problem with that is then the Linux system is "virtual" rather than the boot system . . . which uses memory. In my case I only have 4GB on my MBPro.
It's very easy to partition the HD using DU . . . select the HD in the left side DU window, click the >partitions tab and select the number of partitions you want, and >click apply . . . viola . . . HD is partitioned . . . . The original boot system remains intact, and you can install or do what you will with the other partitions--the size of them is by dragging the "borders" to the size you want.
That's the easy part--of course you should do a cloned back up before you do anything--the Linux install part you could look at rEFInd's support page or search "rodbooks" and find his dual boot instructions. I did that with my dual boot set up -- using Bootcamp -- which went OK until I wanted to get a third partition, but Bootcamp had locked the HD . . . so I had to wipe the HD to get my now dual boot 10.6.8 & 10.8.5? system set up with a third partition set as "Freespace" . . . ready for a Linux OS install . . . using DU this time.
So, VikingOSX's advice is probably the easiest, possibly the safest . . . but it depends on using a lot of memory . . . it's like "Classic" . . . "you're in 10, but you're in 9" . . . as an old hippie guy said to me when I got my first G4 . . . . You'd be running Fedora within OSX and there ****might**** be a speed differential. Booted up as the root system Linux is pretty fast . . . gltichy, but fast. It takes a bit of work to get the boot manager rEFInd set up, but once that's done the installation into "Largest freespace" is usually pretty easy, I 've done a lot of Linux installs now and I mostly use the "automatic" option and let the system set it up. Point being, the other way, the dual boot "dark side" way is a tad more complicated, but more fun.
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is the total drive), and I don't want it to be boot drive. I am lost about how to do theis.

I am using Win 8.1 Pro. I am taking a harddrive from another computer which as a boot partition and 2 other partitions. I would like to completely reformat the drive to remove the partitions so I end up with just one partition of 500MB
( which is the total drive), and I don't want it to be boot drive. I am lost about how to do theis.
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3. Now right-click the graphic for the unallocated space then choose New Simple Volume. Type in a meaningful Volume label name and format it (Quick format is sufficient). It is now ready for use.
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I think you might have misunderstood my problem. I am able to boot into both OS X and Windows without any problems. I can read the OS X partition from Windows without any problems as well. My issue is, that I’d think that the OS X partition should NOT be visible from Windows, as it is FV encrypted.
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sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 490234751] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 351563960      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
351973600    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
353243136 136990720      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header

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Revision ID:          0x00b1
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Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0647
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3448
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