Please help me remove GRUB and opensuse 11.4 of my dual boot with windows xp

I have a dual boot with opensuse 11.4 which I realized later it was too buggy and I don't know how to get rid of it I do not have the windows startup disk, but them were leaving linux are:

a swap of 2,00 GB,
An extended partition (holds the bootloader?) 12.00 GB
and linux itself 16,00 GB.
Windows 44,00 GB partition
Space free 9,00 MB
Help me save windows and get rid of all the rest!
Please,

Start the recovery console and run the FIXMBR command to remove the grub from the MBR.  You can download a recovery here Console .iso file and burn it to a CD.

John

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