How to restore Mac

So, I was trying to get a Dual-Boot set up with my 5,4 Mac Book Pro (2009), but in the process my Mac run out of battery without a warning, and now there is no sign of my Mac OS X partition or the recover mode partition. I can only see the damaged windows partition. So at this point I'm want to restore. The main idea I have is downloading Mavericks right away, burning it into a cd and installing it all over again. But the problem is that without another Mac I can't download Mavericks. Is there perhaps anyway I could download it in my Linux Computer so that I could burn it into a cd?
I really need help. There is no way to get the information of my hardrive back, I know it's a lost cause, since I have checked using an Ubuntu live cd. There is nothing left. I just want my mac back working...

chazperx wrote:
I just got a MacPro, and this is my 1st mac. With Windows, I had become used to putting in my "restore" disk, and in an hour, my computer was the same as it was when I first took it out of the box.
While I'm sure I wont have many of the issues I had with the PC, I would like to perform this system restore. Can anyone suggest any documentation on how this would work, or if it's even possible?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Chaz
You should be using Time Machine from which you can restore your system to any previous date.
You can also boot into your DVD and do an Archive and Install, which will essentially put your system back to "day 0" but keep all your settings and non-system files.
However, this is not Windows and you will most likely never need to do that. With windows, reinstalls are needed to remove junk. With a Mac, junk is easily removed and there is no such think as "dll heck" or other such windows things.
I have been running Macs for years and have never needed to restore any or them.
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