Booting problem, i'm really stressed :(

hello,
when i turn my MBP on and boot it into OS X (it has bootcamp), it only displays the apple logo with the spinning wheel, and it displays a circle with a slash in it with the spinning wheel still turning, please help me guys

Hold the Option key down during boot between the startup tone and the Apple logo/pinwheel.  When the bootmanager comes up, select the OSx partition (normally MacIntosh HD).
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