My macbook wont come on. black screen saying insert boot disc please help

Just tried to turn on my mac book. came up with a black screen and insert boot disc. never done this before. cant find my serial number on the mac book so cant find the support i need. please help

Mandalizabeth39 wrote:
thank you that worked great
You never answered my question, and if you have not changed anything then this will happen again
What choices were presented by the boot manager

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Hi, there everyone!
So here's the epilogue to my story.
I wanted to install Windows 7 on my late 2011 MBP running Lion. Went to Bootcamp to get the process done, as I get there I see that I'm lacking the option to make a start up disk on a usb, so I looked up ways to change that. After many days of searching and trying I stumbled upon the option to change coding on the info.plist file inside the package contents of Bootcamp. When I was done changing a few things (as directed to online) Bootcamp then no longer would open, only bounce on the dock then close. I tried turning back the clock with Time Machine with no avail. I was left with an error built into the system, and thus forcing me to upgrade to Mavericks.
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