I think I crashed my eMac

Basically I think that I crashed my emac. I downloaded a new upgrade torrent for my eMac and tried to install through an external drive. Some how I erased my Macintosh drive. My issue now is that I cannot even start my computer up. When I bought the computer it came with one disc and this is not the disc to install mac os x back onto the computer, its techtools. I tried to install the torrents from another computer and download them onto disc. I then tried to insert the disc into the eMac and install the mac os x software. The computer did not read the disc so that was a total failure. I also tried to use command+s to find a solution, nothing. I also tried to reset my pram and that was a failure. I also tried command, option, f+o and I couldn't find anything. Is there some kind of way to restore files onto the computer through these channels. I need your help guys, give me some helpful hints to get my computer back up and running, thank you...

Do you have access to a second Mac, maybe from a friend?
It sounds to me that you at least need to salvage your files using target disk mode through another Mac. I once had this problem on a friend's iMac, he did something wrong to his OS and wasn't sure exactly what (he was a new user at the time), his iMac was unresponsive, and an archive & install wasn't a viable option, so I connected his iMac with my old crate eMac via firewire and upon logging on to my Mac I could see his HDD as an external firewire disk that was fully accessible. I then proceeded to copy all his important files to my machine and installed Mac OS X all over again clean slate (not archiving and installing) to rectify the problem. Definitely as stated before you need to get the Mac OS X installation DVD to begin with, it's a must.

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