Only the hard drive image showing up upon start up

When I started up my computer today for the first time ever all I saw was a larger image of my hard drive located in the middle of a gray screen. Had to click on it to proceed to the desk top. Has this every happened to anyone else? This is the first time for me and I am curious as to what caused that.

This happens if you hold the option key while booting - it invokes the startup manager so that if you have a bootable external disk you can choose that to boot from just this one time: as you only have the internal disk that's all that showed. Possibly you hit the option key by accident: anyway it's quite harmless.

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