"Couldn't find Zephyr root" both SEGGER and VsCode

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Hello all, 
 Lost my VM that had a working installation and just setting everything back up. 
 After installing SDK 1.8.0 and all of the extensions for VsCode. Now both SEGGER and VSCode cannoot find the Zephry root and I cannot find it on disk?

This was not a problem in the past, any ideas? 
 Thanks 
 
 Edit: Another problem... like all of the examples are missing?? searched for serial_lte_modem and it comes up with nothing. Even just searching serial, or application comes up with nothing useful? 
 Edit2: I installed the most recent 3 releases and none have a zephyr folder anymore?!?!?

Mr.Newlove · Accepted Answer

Albrecht Markus Schellenberger said: Well this is strange. But I’m not able to get the attached file to run on my DK neither. Could you try the following in a bash with your nRF9160 DK? 
 Odd, as I said it works fine if I use the standalone loader. Keep in mind I am using different Rx/Tx pins so it wont talk on the standard DK 
 Mr.Newlove said: Yes, that would be great. I have tested to create a custom board based on the nRF9160 non-secure myself with the wizard in VS Code. I stored it in my_root_application\boards and it seems to work fine, so no ”The system cannot find the file specified” here. I get build errors for sure, but they are expected without any modifications of the board files itself. 
 Odd thing, went to test this again after updating the SDK and I am getting different errors now to do with the kconf, but I think those are all solvable. Think its because I didn't actually configure the serial port pins for the new board so it doesn't know what to do. 
 Albrecht Markus Schellenberger said: Does this work? 
 Peculiar, yes that works, but not from within VSCode using the SDK tools 
 From bash: 
 $ west flash --erase
-- west flash: rebuilding
[0/21] Performing build step for 'spm_subimage'
ninja: no work to do.
[1/5] Performing build step for 'mcuboot_subimage'
ninja: no work to do.
-- west flash: using runner nrfjprog
-- runners.nrfjprog: mass erase requested
Using board 960031669
-- runners.nrfjprog: Flashing file: C:
cs\MyApps\serial_lte_modem_uart0_gps\build\zephyr\merged.hex
Parsing image file.
Verified OK.
Applying pin reset.
-- runners.nrfjprog: Board with serial number 960031669 flashed successfully.
 
 From VSCode: 
 Executing task: nRF Connect: Flash serial_lte_modem_uart0_gps/build (active) <

Flashing build to undefined
west flash -d c:
cs\MyApps\serial_lte_modem_uart0_gps\build --skip-rebuild -r nrfjprog --snr 960031669 --erase

-- west flash: using runner nrfjprog
-- runners.nrfjprog: mass erase requested
-- runners.nrfjprog: Flashing file: C:
cs\MyApps\serial_lte_modem_uart0_gps\build\zephyr\merged.hex
Parsing image file.
Verified OK.
Applying pin reset.
-- runners.nrfjprog: Board with serial number 960031669 flashed successfully. 
 
 Edit: I have no idea why, but now it works, I didnt change anything, maybe updating the SDK the other day fixed it?

"Couldn't find Zephyr root" both SEGGER and VsCode

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