How do I recover my VM's from a readable HDD who's O/S has failed?

We've had the O/S fail on the hard drive that contains several Hyper-v virtual machines.  The drive was still readable - just not bootable.  After several attempts to install a new copy of Windows Server 2008 r2 on the same drive, I've given up
and installed a new HDD and installed the O/S on that.
Everything is working fine, all I now need to do is get the virtual machines up and going again.  I assumed that all I needed to do was copy the .vhd and .avhd files to the new HDD and import them into a new VM on the new HDD. 
I've tried doing this, but I get an error message that says "Import failed.  Unable to find virtual machine import files..."  Is there any way around my dilemma?

Hi Brian,
As BrianEh mentioned , you may try to merge the  AVHD files to its parent file  until you get an vhd file for the new VM , please refer to following link to merge them manually :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/01/25/better-alternatives-to-manually-merging-snapshots-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Best Regards
Elton Ji
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