Help, feeling really stupid! (left CD in drive after Windows installation)

[shadyapex]

So, I just got my new Mac Book Pro, my first Mac. I decided to install Windows 7 and went ahead and partitioned the HD, hit Install and only then realized that I had left a disc in the disc drive. Now my Mac is looking for a bootable disc and I can't put one in. Jeez, I hope I'm not the first person to make this mistake. Any suggestions on how to remove the disc or restart the machine with OS X? Thanks,,,,,

 

[randomrazr]

So, I just got my new Mac Book Pro, my first Mac. I decided to install Windows 7 and went ahead and partitioned the HD, hit Install and only then realized that I had left a disc in the disc drive. Now my Mac is looking for a bootable disc and I can't put one in. Jeez, I hope I'm not the first person to make this mistake. Any suggestions on how to remove the disc or restart the machine with OS X? Thanks,,,,,

hit the eject buttom??

 

[dukebound85]

hold the trackpad down while booting up to force eject

 

[gr8tfly]

Hold down the opt key on startup to select the OS-X volume. Then, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and select the OS-X volume as the default startup disk.

 

[shadyapex]

gr8tfly wins!!!!!!!!!!

Hold down the opt key on startup to select the OS-X volume. Then, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and select the OS-X volume as the default startup disk.

Bingo, and thanks. randomrazr, the eject button doesn't work so well when the computer isn't booted up, but thanks anyway.