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What file is the bookmarks kept in - I lost motherboard, but saved hard drive info to new unit -- need to bring bookmarks out of old drive, into new -- Help, Please

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Lost motherboard on old computer - got a new one and the techs transfered the old hard drive onto the new one -- I want to find the bookmark file, so I can move it to Firefox on the new computer. I can run Firefox from the old hard drive files that were saved, but it does not find the old bookmarks -- I would have thought they would have been in a file, somewhere in the folder. Thanks for any help anyone can offer. ---- Last, I did not know that you could save (backup) bookmarks until I started this search. Dummy me, but willing to learn.

Lost motherboard on old computer - got a new one and the techs transfered the old hard drive onto the new one -- I want to find the bookmark file, so I can move it to Firefox on the new computer. I can run Firefox from the old hard drive files that were saved, but it does not find the old bookmarks -- I would have thought they would have been in a file, somewhere in the folder. Thanks for any help anyone can offer. ---- Last, I did not know that you could save (backup) bookmarks until I started this search. Dummy me, but willing to learn.

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

Your old Profile is located here in Win XP and W2K:
drive:\Documents and Settings\Windows login user name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile_name