Hi im trying to remove linux and resize the windows partition to its original size. I have opensuse 10.3 on my system and i read the instructions on opensuse.org but when i try to resize the windows partition it tells me it is unable to resize as the file system is inconsistent. Any suggestions?

Get the live cd Parted Magic or similar from distrowatch.com and use that to delete the suse partition and resize windows

As far as I know you could also use the partition editor that comes along Windows (at least XP and later); it has worked for me anyway. You can't use a partition editor for mounted partitions, so you can't run the partition editor from within the running Linux system; that's why your possibilities are to use some other operating system - Windows, maybe, or a live-cd Linux that has a partition editor program like GParted (most if not all live-cd Linuxes like Knoppix or Ubuntu Desktop do come with one), so you have a variety of possibilities. Pick the one you want, make sure the partitions are not mounted when you operate on them (the operations will hopefully just fail if the partitions are mounted, but it won't do any good in any case), then delete the Linux partitions and resize the Windows partition (that can take some time if the disk is big).

Before going there, make sure you either already have, or at least have means to replace your bootloader with a working one - deleting Linux might (read: probably will) render your Linux bootloader useless. If you are unsure at all, download and burn the Grub super cd (it's probably not called that, but I don't remember it - a web search ought to bring it to you) that can fix all sorts of boot problems.

How do i use parted magic

Any of the GUI partition editors are pretty self-explanatory. You boot the CD and follow the menus. I would get the GParted live CD, as B0uncer says.

You will also need a Windows install CD to restore the MBR code. Boot from the CD--rescue mode, and enter "fixmbr"

Im using gparted now and i need to know what do i set the Free space preceding section with and the Free space following section when resizing the windows partition

It's really up to what you are trying to do. If you want windows to have the whole disk, set them to zero. If you want a 10G partition following the windows partition make following 10,000 etc. We can't really answet that question

someone knows what's the difference between gparted and visparted ?
http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMa...UsingVisParted

If you leave them set to zero you cannot click resize. I want windows to have the whole disk

If you leave them set to zero you cannot click resize. I want to give windows the whole disk space

You will need to delete the linux partition first

Ok ive deleted linux now and resized the windows partition. Now im running the windows install cd to repair the bootloader. When i go into the repair option it is asking me for an administrator password which i thought would be my windows login password as i am the only user of the machine, evidently its not. How do i get the administrator password?

Ok problem sorted. The password was blank as in empty. Job done. Thank you to everyone who replied.