I honestly do not know if the VHD was open, but I was not accessing it when the computer died and completely shut off as I was just cruising internet news sites. It was an odd failure, the SSD card was only a little over a year old. Whatever failed would not let me boot or even get to bios without it being removed. I thought it odd that all the other data on the drive was good, just the VHD area was not accessible anymore.

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Well, I actually got the files back but it was an odd turn of events. I had downloaded every program I could in an attempt to recover the VHD file that would not mount. None would work, all of them evaluated the file and said that it was severely corrupt and could not be saved. At that point I just gave up and just wanted to start with a fresh second drive in my system.

I thought it best to just back up the entire drive and format it. As I was saving the entire drive contents, I noticed that one of the folders being saved was the VHD I had lost, but it was an earlier file name. After using this folder/drive, I wanted to change the description, and it had worked flawlessly with that new name until my C drive failed and after buying a new one I lost the ability to mount the VHD in E drive.

Anyway, the entire contents of the backup of the physical drive I checked the VHD that was saved. Sure enough, I could mount it to my system and all my files were there.

Odd outcome but happy it is now working! Maybe these notes will help someone else......