MacBook (black) can't recognize operating system

My sis has a black MacBook that originally has Mac OS X 10.6.3. She wanted windows on her computer, but forgot to split her hard drive ending up with only windows on her computer. I believe the mac os is deleted. Luckily, she has the time machine hard drive. Any ideas on how to fix this??

Hi,
have a look here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018#14
Hope it helps
Stefan

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