Try borrowing another Vista DVD and booting from it, also be sure you have
the boot sequence set up to try to boot from the DVD first. You will need
to either carry out the repair install as instructed or wipe and reinstall
Windows completely to recover from the error you are now seeing.
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"Satish Gupta" <> wrote in message
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>I have Windoes Vista.
>
> While Windows Defender was in the process of sanitizing a file, I exited
> it.
> After that, when I rebooted the computer I get this message:
>
> Windows could not start. It could be because of a software you recently
> added or changed. Please follow these steps to fix it.
>
> 1. Insert installation disk
> 2. Select the language
> 3. Select repair your computer
>
> File: boot\bcd
> Status: 0XC000000f
> Info: An error occured while reading boot configuration data
> -------------
> I tried to reboot using the original installation disk. It does not work.
>
> Can someone help, Please?