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How can I retrieve bookmarks from a hard drive of a computer when the mother board is fried

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mscott4722
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The mother board of my Windows XP desktop failed. I bought a new computer running Windows 7 and need to know how to locate and extract the file containing my many Firefox bookmarks on the old hard drive. I have back ups on an external hard drive. What would the bookmark file name be? Thank you.

The mother board of my Windows XP desktop failed. I bought a new computer running Windows 7 and need to know how to locate and extract the file containing my many Firefox bookmarks on the old hard drive. I have back ups on an external hard drive. What would the bookmark file name be? Thank you.

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the-edmeister
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See this support article:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

mscott4722
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Thank you! I will give the tips a try