Removing XP start files

Hi,
I have two internal hard drives (not in the same time). On one I installed XP on the other not. Unfortunately when I switched two HD's I forgot to remove XP start CD so he started to copy all basic files on the HD I do not have XP installed.
Now the situation is the following, when I start the computer with the HD no XP installed on, the black screen appears and that is all. If I want to start OS X I have to press Option button in order to get all possible bootable disks and then to choose Macintosh HD (note that I do not have any other option to boot from on the screen). So I suppose XP copied permanently some startup files somewhere.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Ivan

Sharlo:
If I want to start OS X I have to press Option button in order to get all possible bootable disks and then to choose Macintosh HD (note that I do not have any other option to boot from on the screen).
Simply boot into OSx using the procedure above first. Choose Preferences and then under System choose *Startup Disk* and highlight Mac HD. This should set the default boot disk to OSx the next time you boot with this drive.
Axel F.

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