Problem with windows/bootcamp

Hi! I bootcamped windows on my mid 12 MacBook pro because of a game I needed and everything went fine until I realized I didn't click on the Box (download the latest Windows support software fform Apple). Now it seems like I can't go back to Mac because I don't have bootcamp on windows and I am panicking.
PLEASE HELP ME!
PS. I don't know which operating system I have because I can't see it...:(

Hi there Benny,
You should be able to get back to your Mac partition by holding the Option button on your keyboard:
OS X Mavericks: Methods for starting up your Mac
Select a startup disk
Option
To open the optical drive when choosing a startup disk, press Command (⌘)-Period (.).
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the very best,
Sterling

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great job jognt, wonderful post (though i found out about it only after a 2-day research in to the subject).
however, i still cannot find a solution to installing windows 7 from a usb.
i'd be grateful for any advice if you have the time:
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the hdd has osx snow leopard with win7 32-bit partitioned in bootcamp.
i performed a little surgery to my little mac so it could run much faster than before:
1. replaced one of the 1gb ram sticks to a 4gb ram stick (=5gb of total ram). would be happier with 8gb, but upon replacing both sticks i get a memory error which i could solve up to this moment (though this is probably not related to nmy problem).
2. replaced the superdrive with a 250gb ssd from samsung (840 series).
i downloaded mavericks osx 10.9.1 and loaded it into a 16gb usb, which installed flawlessly on the ssd (125gb partition).
as i've formated the usb using snow leopard's disk utility and hadn't install any lions, i had no recovery partition (which disables "find my mac" along with other stuff). i decided to add a recovery partition, and have successfully done so using a custom app named Recovery Editor (instructions can be found here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1606779).
next, i've tried to install windows 7 64-bit on the same drive (ssd) on the second partition - 125gb formatted to fat32. i've placed win installation files in the usb using the modified boot camp assistant (removed "pre" from "PreUSBBootSupportedModels" and "PreUEFIModels", added my model under "DARequiredROMVersions" and "UEFIModels").
before even trying to use this usb (and following a mass amount of people reporting peoblems), i decided to use your method: formatted the usb with diskpart (fat32, active), added the windows installation files from an iso (which includes both 32- and 64-bit versions), copied the bootcamp v5 support software and restarted the computer.
however, pressing the option key shows 4 options - the snow leopard partition and win7 32-bit partition on the hdd and mavericks partition and recovery partition on the ssd.
the usb is not recognized.
i tried clearing the pram (option+command+r+p) and eject and insert the usb after pressing option to see if it will add the usb to the list.
from what i've read around, some people were able to use their usb if they disconnected the hdd and placed the ssd instead (leaving the cdrom place empty), but i would rather avoid this.
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