HELP! I think I deleted my hard drive

I was trying to install Boot Camp and I think I erased the partition on which my Mac stuff was on. Now it won't boot anymore on Leopard. It only boots on Windows. I am not sure were I made the mistake, but I am afraid I erased my whole disk, thinking I was installing Windows on another partition... Anyway, bottom line, before I re-install Leopard from scratch, can someone tell me if there is any chance to get back to my original Leopard and data? I am afraid not, but maybe I am wrong...

I'm sorry this happened to you. Heck of a way to end the year but there is a New Year coming.
I don't claim to be an expert on this, and someone correct me if I am wrong but here is what I would do.
1. Back up your windows data to a separate firewall drive, not the hard drive on the computer, if you have any important windows info you want to save.
2. Insert the leopard disk and boot the machine.
3. Use erase and install option.
4. After it installs, go to "Utilities" (in the finder under "Applications") and click on Disk Utility.
5. the hard drive should be listed (by manufactures name i.e. Fujitsu....) and underneath that as a sub drive there should be Listed a drive as Macintosh HD.
6. CLICK ON THE MANUFACTURES NAME (i.e Fijitsu....) to highlite it.
7. DO NOT CLICK ON THE MACINTOSH DRIVE, THIS IS NOT THE ROOT DRIVE. YOU HAVE TO PARTITION THE ROOT DRIVE.
7. right click with the mouse and it will give you the option to set up a partition.
8. Pick your Partition size and let the computer do its thing.
I hope this will work for you.
Happy New Year.
Norm

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