I cannot access windows partition after an unexpected stutdown

Hello everyone,
while I was working on my windows partition(windows 7 ultimate) in my imac 27' i5, a strong and continuous error sound and black screen appeared without shut down the machine,so I pressed the button( in the back of my monitor which is used to start up my machine).
After that windows partition only starts with safe mode (where so no much I can do),(in normal mode a blue window appears which says something about remove hardware, error and some things which I can not read cause it disappears too quickly (1sec).
So,after several efforts in save mode I understand that there was a problem with an installation of an antivirus program,which had not been installed correctly,and in save mode I got a message of catastrophic failure,and also I can not uninstall or remove this program under safe mode.
Till now I have been advised to delete bootcamp partition,and create it again and run windows again,so do you think this is the only solution?
Is there any way to access bootcamp files and modify under macintosh?
I need to mention that I have imac about two months, and usually I use windows partition (because I work with a program which is not supported by macintosh).
Also, do you think that deleting windows partition and creating again is there any case to harm my mac?
Which edition of windows is better compatible? (If there is one)
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 27''

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