Macbook pro wont start from disc

Recently i let a friend barrow my macbook pro and i wanted to completly erase its hard drive and to do that you have to put in the install disc and hold C at startup all of that i understood but the problem is whenever i hold C at start up it just gets stuck at the apple with the pinwhele and just stays there i even let it go overnight and when i woke up the next morning it was still going please help

The correct DVD for your Mac must be in the drive. The last "Full Retail" DVD for Snow Leopard has only 10.6.3 on it, and will not boot a whole lot of recent Macs. The one that shipped with your Mac will always work, provided your DVD rerader is working.
If C does not seem to work, try holding down Option at Startup. That brings up the ROM-resident Startup Manager, which draws an Icon for each bootable drive available. Choose the one you want and proceed from there.

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