Can't reinstall OS X (10.5.2) after Windows XP install failed

My son tried to install Windows XP into a 50GB partition on a 13" black MacBook (2.4GHz, 250GB HD). The installation failed and now the MacBook wont boot. It gives a message "No bootable device insert....". The extended hardware test on the MacOS X Install disc 1 says that there are no hardware problems. When we boot up using the MacOS X Install disc 1 the screen on the "Select a Destination" page is blank. I have tried the suggestion I found in a Google search of going into Disk Utility and simply waiting for 30 minutes but it didn't work. Similarly the suggestion of going into Terminal and typing in some code didn't work either. First Aid in Disk Utility cant do anything because the boxes such as "Repair Disk" are greyed out. Disk Utility shows a 232.9GB Fujitsu HD with SMART status verified and an icon for disk0 that is NTFS. Overall, does this mean that the failed installation has wiped OS X from the hard drive (and reformatted it for Windows)? I don't understand why I cant use the MacOS X install disc to do a reinstall. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Hi
Your son selected the internal partition when he was presented with the choice of formatting NTFS the boot camp partition from the XP Installer Disk. Basically he's wiped the whole of the drive. Unless you had a backup everything has been deleted with not much chance of recovery.
Boot from the installer disk, and launch Disk Utility from the Utilities Menu. You should see the primary partition of the internal drive, select it and the select Partition from the tab selections on the right hand side. Select Custom, select One Partition and click apply. You will be warned that doing so will erase everything. Seeing as you've lost everything anyway you have nothing left to lose. The format type should be Macintosh OSX Extended. It does not matter if you choose Journaled or not. Click apply. Quit out of Disk Utility and the drive should now present itself as a valid destination drive to install Leopard. Proceed from there normally. Once you have everything back up and running. Go for XP Install again but this time watch what your son is doing and make sure he selects the correct partition for installation and formatting.
This link has lots of useful advice for pretty much any question you can think of:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=599
Hope this helps, Tony

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