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Locating bookmarks on an old hardrive that does not run Windows, but the old hard drive files are accessable through another hardrive.

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The old hard drive does not run Windows, therefore, the usual file access through Firefox or Windows Explorer has not worked for me. The old hard drive is now a slave drive and all file are intact and accessible through the new Windows 7 64 bit OS.

The old hard drive does not run Windows, therefore, the usual file access through Firefox or Windows Explorer has not worked for me. The old hard drive is now a slave drive and all file are intact and accessible through the new Windows 7 64 bit OS.

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Do you have Windows set to show hidden files and folder? If not, please do that first. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

Next, what version of Windows did you have on the old drive? Your profile folder should be on the applicable path:

Windows XP and earlier:

\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Windows Vista and later:

\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If you find multiple profile folders, check the most recent first. Look for a subfolder named bookmarkbackups. This article describes how to restore the .json files you find there: Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.

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Do you have Windows set to show hidden files and folder? If not, please do that first. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

Next, what version of Windows did you have on the old drive? Your profile folder should be on the applicable path:

Windows XP and earlier:

\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Windows Vista and later:

\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If you find multiple profile folders, check the most recent first. Look for a subfolder named bookmarkbackups. This article describes how to restore the .json files you find there: Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.

Any luck?

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Please note: when you restore a .json file, any bookmarks in the Firefox you are restoring into are lost. If you have added some bookmarks you want to save, you need to add two steps:

(1) Before doing the restore, export your current bookmarks. This creates an HTML format file, not a JSON file. This article has the steps: Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks.

(2) After doing the restore, import that HTML file. This article has the steps: Import Bookmarks from an HTML file. Then you can delete any unwanted duplicates.

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Thank you for solving this. I was, however, able to quickly find the files without having to look in the hidden files. Now I need to find my passwords.

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