Miss erased disk? and reinstall MAC OS X problem!

NEEDS HELP...
very new to mac...
"160.04 GB Internal SATA Disk"
"Macintosh HD"
Im completely erased the "macintosh HD' on my macbook using disk utility....
then i try to reinstall MAC OS on it....
but then it couldnt find any disk to locate the installation....
PLEASE HELP ME!!! =(

Does Disk Utility still see the drive? If so, did you format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? (Select the formatted volume, with whatever name you gave it, in Disk Utility and look at the Format info at the bottom of the window.) Also in Disk Utility, select the drive itself, not the volume, and see what the Partition Map Scheme says... should be GUID if you want to install Mac OS X on it.

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