Odd problem booting Windows XP

I have an iMac configured to restart into Windows XP by default. Most of the time, upon a restart or power up, it will boot to the Windows welcome screen fine. However, every now and then, upon a restart Windows XP will hang almost immediately after the boot splash screen is displayed.
The only way to solve the issue is to option-boot into OS X (no need to log in) and then restart... Windows will then revert to booting fine (until the next time it decides to hang on startup).
Chkdsk finds no errors on the XP partition, Disk Utility no errors on the OS X.
Any ideas?

I found this too. It seems to only find one host controller and leaves the other with an error. I constantly tried to fix it since I would look in device manager and see an exclamation over one of the USB controllers. I don't know what it is but I just decided it was a flaw with BootCamp.
Anyone with an answer?
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Buon giorno a tutti,
ho il seguente problema:
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e non mi fa fare il boot da dvd che però è funzionante
(testato con virtualmachine)
il bios è stato aggiornato tempo fa tramite l'utility hp e non so come tornare indietro.
il portatile è un hp6830s
grazie dell'aiuto

Hello everyone,
I have the following problem:
trying to do a fresh install of windows 7 pc gives me the following error
Non-System disk or disk error, replace and strike any key When ready
The error appears with 2 different hard drives, one SSD and one normal
and I do not boot from dvd but it is working
(tested with virtualMachine)
the bios has been updated recently by the utility hp and do not know how to go back.
the laptop is a hp6830s
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error: invalid signature
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Please help me with my boot problem. I cannot access my computer, windows will not boot.
I am running windows 7.
Upon starting up my laptop, I get the message "bootmgr is compressed - press ctrl alt del to restart"
I have searched for the problem around the internet, and it seems to be due to people compressing their hard drive to save space and cancelling half way through.
I have not done this- I was playing around with a SLIC Loader program and installed it by mistake, now I can't boot windows.
I have tried using my windows 7 DVD to repair the startup but it didn't work.
I have also tried to restore but I did not set any restore points.
I have tried using some command prompt bootmgr reset procedures which also did not work.
Can I somehow get a backup of bootmgr and restore it?
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I assume your boot manager is damage. Probably by installing the SLIC Loader program
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