Accidentally had a Xserve EFI disc in drive of my 13' macbook

a Xserve EFI disc in drive of my 13' macbook and now it is stuck on the spinning circle.
i stop it before it finishes, the bar gets about halfway in 15 min, i stopped it. and did a restart holding down the option key.
what i get now is not and option for my HD. instead i get EFI boot, Boot camp, or Recovery HD.
Help

If it comes to erasing Lion paritiotn, don't do that unless you want to delete your files.
You can use the Lion Recovery to install Lion onto a external, GUID OS X Extended (j) formatted hard drive, then option boot from it and access your internal Lion OS X partition and grab files.
All provided you didn't enable Filevault.
When you set up Lion again on the internal partition, use the same usename as before, this way returning your files works (like itunes playlists and iPhoto Library)

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I am not quite ready to restore the full iphoto library , as I have days of work re - imputting titles,descriptions and enhancement . I hope that your suggestion works , as I use my Macbook basically to work with digital photography. Through time , I will need to delete my library to recover more disc space and I would hate to have to spend more time re - imputting titles and descriptions all over again .
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Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
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quote:
The Premiere Elements 13 No Disc error is a known issue which has afflicted many. PRE_help's fix for this has
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end quote
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