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Want to retrieve my old bookmarks from disc with corrupted OS.

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BobHarwell
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I have a disc that contains my previous Firefox environment. That disc had a Windows XP OS failure. So I can't run Firefox with that disc. But I can read that disc with my new computer (Windows 10). So how do I retrieve the Firefox Bookmark info from that disc?

I have a disc that contains my previous Firefox environment. That disc had a Windows XP OS failure. So I can't run Firefox with that disc. But I can read that disc with my new computer (Windows 10). So how do I retrieve the Firefox Bookmark info from that disc?

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FredMcD
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Find your old profiles on that disk.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles