I think i bricked a partition on my hard disk, how to reset?

Hi!
Earlier this year i had to install Windows 8 on my mac because one of my classes at school requires it. This i did and it all went fine until i had to reinstall the OS because of some unrelevant problems.
So i deleted Windows 8 via Bootcamp Assistant, and then installed Windows 8.1. It seemed to work at first, but i couldn't connect to the internet. Then, to resolve the problem, i deleted OS X (i thought that the internet adapter was "occupied" by the mac OS, so by deleting it i would free the internet adapter, making it available for use). It still didn't work so i booted to the recovery disk and deleted both the OS X partition and the Bootcamp partition.
Here's the problem though; When i clicked delete on the mac OS X, it stood "preparing to delete partition", and after i'd waited for maybe 10 minutes or so i just exited Disk Utility (even though i was warned, stupid, i know!). When i got back in it actually worked, and the partition was clean. So i did the same thing for the Windows partition, and this time i got "preparing to delete partition" too, but when i entered the program after quitting again the partition, with the storage, had just dissepeared. It's like i didn't have more than 45GB storage room to begin with.
Screenshot of what i am seeing in Disk Utility:
The Recovery HD partition might seem big here, but it's only on 650MB.
Is it possible fix this? I know i shouldn't have exited in the middle of the process, but i thought that since it worked the first time it would work again, stupid me.
Thanks for the answers!

Is this on a Macbook Air model or a iMac? You are posting in the iMac forum
In any event you need to boot from the Online Internet recovery system. at startup hold down the Command + Option/alt + r keys and keep them held down until you see a globe on the screen. Connect to your WiFi network and use Disk Utility to Repartition the drive as One Partition. Then exit DU and select Reinstall Mac OS X. The original version of OS X that came on your Mac when it was new will be downloaded from the internet and installed. From that you can again upgrade to whatever version of OS X you are now using.
This works if your Air came with either Lion, Mt Lion or Mavericks when it was new. If it originally came with Snow Leopard you will need to use the Snow Leopard System Reubstall USB thumb drive that came with your air to do the repartitioning and reinstall of OS X.

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