FYI, issue resolved. I was just about to reinstall the OS through my USB stick but decided to poke around the OS repair "Advanced options". Next, noticed the "System Restore" option, it seemed ...
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FYI, issue resolved. I was just about to reinstall the OS through my USB stick but decided to poke around the OS repair "Advanced options". Next, noticed the "System Restore" option, it seemed to have one system restore point listed on the same day the power outage occurred. I'm not sure what triggered it to create the system restore point? With nothing else to lose, I selected that and it recovered everything except for the VMWare Workstation Pro program. It showed my original Network Connections that included VMnet1 and VMnet8. I just had to install VMWare Workstation Pro again and looks like everything is back in order once again. This saved so much potential time for me. Happy happy, yay yay!
