Please I need urgent help!!!!! HELP!!!

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A friend told me it was easy to install a fake windows software so I downloaded and burned one on a DVD, I started to run Bootcamp and now I cannot install it but cannot either eject the CD or run OSX please help me it only shows me this message... Starting BCDW ... OK
No Bootable Device- Insert boot disk and press any key

I press every key and it stays in that screen, if I turn it off it shows up in that screen again... Please I need help I know I should have not done that but please Im afraid I might've ruined my Mac please help me please. ASAP please Im beggin u
 
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Fake windows software? What exactly did you try to install? A copy of Windows?
 
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Right, so it was an illegitimate Windows install disk?
 
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Have you got the fake CD out of the drive? If so try and pop the Leopard DVD in and boot from that and if you can get it up and running go to Disk Utility and Repair Disk and see if that works otherwise you may be in for an erase and install.
 

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Power up the Mac and hold down the left mouse button after the startup sound and keep it down. The DVD should eject after a bit.

It's against the rules to talk pirated software here at Mac Forums. Just for the record. Bootcamp works with a Factory XP SP2 CD or Factory Vista DVD.
 
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I fixed it, I just came back to OSX by pressing option, which I didnt know about(sorry) and ejected, joined the partitions and erased the DVD. Thanks btw everyone.
 

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