How is the best way to delete a partition on my hard drive?

Ranish Partition Manager is a great program for creating/deleting/formatting partitions. It's Freeware and ~very~ reliable. However, it can't resize partitions. So if you have two partitions and you delete one, you will have empty space on the hard drive. That's not a bad thing to have really - you never know when you might want to install a second OS or create a partition for backup or archive. If you really need to resize the remaining partition(s) to fill the drive, there is a freeware program named "Partition Resizer." If you want to spend money, there is a commercial program named "Partition Magic" that can resize, add, and delete paartitions, all with a graphical interface. Best Luck, Bob