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want to move bookmarks from hard drive (dead desktop) to new computeer

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My old desktop recently died and rather than getting it fixed we purchased a new computer. I am removing the hard drive from the old computer and installing it in the expansion bay of the new computer. How can I get the bookmarks from the old drive onto the new computer? Can I just run Firefox from the old drive? I'm noobish with this kind of stuff. 8)

Also the older computer was running XP svc pack 3 and the new computer has Windows 7... If this matters.

My old desktop recently died and rather than getting it fixed we purchased a new computer. I am removing the hard drive from the old computer and installing it in the expansion bay of the new computer. How can I get the bookmarks from the old drive onto the new computer? Can I just run Firefox from the old drive? I'm noobish with this kind of stuff. 8) Also the older computer was running XP svc pack 3 and the new computer has Windows 7... If this matters.

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http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

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Hmmmm. Thanks for the link but that didn't help. I need to be able to find the places file without booting up firefox.... I recently installed the old hard drive into the new computer and am now stuck- if i try to run firefox from the old drive it treats it as a first run on the new computer (makes sense) and when I try to find the places file it only finds the one that is created by the first run.... Not my old one.

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Sorry about that, it looks like that article has been edited since I last read it - someone removed the information about manually locating the Profile folder.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Finding_the_profile_folder_on_Windows#Profile_location

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ugh. I tried to find the profile and it only searches on my C drive..... The drive with the old info is my 'F' is there any way I can do the %APPDATA% search on the F drive instead of the C drive? When I search on the c drive it gives me the newest profile (created this afternoon) and not the original.

UPDATE!

Nevermind I found it and moved it... I just had to get creative with the hidden folders.... Thanks for all your help! 8)

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