How to Fix iMac

Ok so here's what happened. I installed Windows 7 64 bit on my brand new iMac (2011 with a mountain Lion) using Boot Camp Assistant. I followed all of the instructions and it worked fine (even Mountain Lion). So I wanted all of my files to be on it too so I booted from a Windows 7 Recovery cd and tried to restore my Windows 7 to an image back up from my external hard drive. Now for some reason. Windows 7 gets the blue screen of death and reboots my Mac every time I try to use it. Worse yet, my Mountain Lion OS is completely gone. I can only choose Windows. So I tried my friend OSX cd ( I believe it was Snow Lepoard) to re install it and I get this grey screen telling me to reboot and it will not work even when ai hold down C to boot from the disk. I bought it from Future Shop and it did not come with any restore CDs. So how can I get my copy of Mountain Lion back and run it like normal?

EDIT: Now when it boots it the screen goes black and it says "No Operating System". It no longer recognizes the mouse and keyboard and even worse, someone else Snow Lepoard is stuck in the cd tray (because I. was trying to boot from it).

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