Removing Win7 Partition - Regain Space

I had Windows 7 running in Parallels but removed them both. This left me with a lot of unused space in that partition.
I'm trying to regain that space by stretching the MAC partition to encompass the whole hard disk (1.5TB). I've tried
all of the included utilities, plus Tech Tool Pro 5, all to no avail. When using Disk Utility, it just hangs there forever
"checking files". I need a good hard disk utility that will perform magic on my hard disks like repartitioning, formatting,
etc. I had all of this with a PC but not with my iMAC. Can anyone recommend a good disk utility I could purchase that would
go in and remove any artifact files left over from my Parallels and Win 7 drive partition and allow me to regain that valuable
drive space?

never used parallels but with every other virtualization program I've used such as virtualbox, wmware, ms virtual pc
the whole point was that they never did anything in terms of parition of the fysical disk the whole os install of linux or windows or... was 1 file (for each virtual machine) located on my osx parition If i deleted the file the os was gon
would be supriced if parallels requied users to mess with partitions on their fysical disk

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