Boot manager not loading Mac Mini

I just bought a seagate wireless plus hard drive and during the installation it came up with a question " will I use mac only or mac and pc to install date onto drive. And I clicked mac and pc. Little did I know it created a PARAGON partition NTFS. Now my computer won't boot up. Can anyway lead me into the right direction. I have a Mac Mini. Wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse.
I now wish I selected mac only on that drive installation.
And have read in other problems that I will need a cable mouse and keyboard to get it working.
I don't really want the partition on the hard drive, especially if its going to affect every time I turn it on.
Can apple please help?? Anyone

I removed the wireless hard drive....and it still wouldn't boot up.....
I did need a wired keyboard.....
I found a solution and it worked for me......
http://youtu.be/0D4C-A-qIrk
All good now.....

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