Well I told the new vm wkstn to open a vm and pointed to the file on disk. When I hit run it resumed...I didn't really know it was going to do that as I lost the mboard everything went black. I have now totally shut it down and disconnected everything I could frm vm such as sound card, printer etc. restarted no difference. Black screen no video but I can see and move the mouse. I'm presuming I am sitting at the login screen?
Further I have tried windows install fix no good. Can't open anything in safe mode throws unintelligible errors. I am going to pull back down the backup image since nothing has changed and see if I can work with that before doing the restart....we'll see.