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How can I recover my firefox bookmarks if my brother wiped the hard drive?

snapgonzo
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My brother wiped the hard drive in our pc then installed a new hard drive. How do I get my firefox bookmarks back?

My brother wiped the hard drive in our pc then installed a new hard drive. How do I get my firefox bookmarks back?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Did he make a backup first?!

Generally speaking, all your Firefox data is stored locally on disk, so without a backup, or ability to recover data from the wiped disk (maybe Recuva?), the data is gone.

If you had set up a Firefox Account and stored data using the Sync service, that sometimes allows recovery. Does that ring a bell?