Won't book into mac after boot camp delete

I tried to install windows with boot camp assistant and had a hang up in the installation. New partition had been created and windows was installing, and then hung up. I decided to install with vmware, so through boot camp assistant, I deleted windows partition before installing vmware. Windows through vmware installed with no problem, but now when I restart my computer, it tries to boot into windows and says it can't find the startup disc. If I hold the option key down during restart, I can choose the mac partition (the only option it shows, no windows partition) and it starts up with no problem. Ran disc utility, and it shows only the mac partition. Boot camp assistant shows no windows loaded. How do I get rid of the startup problem?
Thanks for any help-

Open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences and select the hard disk.
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data                         799.3 GB   disk2s2
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