Cannot Power on VM

[wasmithpfs]

I recently copied my VM Workstation 9 environments from my physical machine's C; drive over to a partition on an external hardrive. I renamed the VM machines to differentiate them from the one on the physical C: Drive.

Now I am unable to power on the VM on the external drive. I get a dialog stating that the zdrive.vdmk file cannot be found on the system and cannot be opened, even though the file is present in the configuration directory.

[continuum]

check the vmx-file - the vmdks may be configured with absolute paths

[wasmithpfs]

What exactly am I checking for?

[continuum]

vmdks , isoßfiles or floppy-images have an entry like

ide0:0.filename = "name.vmdk"
thats a relative path ß a VM where the paths are configured like this can be moved.

ide0:0.filename = C:\aunt-dorothies-favorite-sausage\noodles\vms\name.vmdk"

VMs with entries like that can not be moved without adjusting the paths