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New hardware, had to reinstall windows xp, forgot to back up bookmarks. way to get them back?

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Grimace

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Ok so i thought i was ready for a windows reinstall if needed, before a hardware upgrade, but i was wrong.
i didnt back up my firefox or opera bookmarks, and would really like to get them back.

Initially i tried the repair method with the windows cd after a new mb-cpu-ram install. but that didnt work, so i just did a clean install. i did back up the old c drive with acronis, and have restored the image to another drive. i even put the old hardware back in, and tried booting after i restored the image of the old c drive, but that didnt work. it said error loading os...

any ideas?
 
I believe Acronis TrueImage will let you mount an image in order to get stuff out of it. Rummage around in the UI and/or the Help file for an option like that.
 
Originally posted by: jameswhite1979
Do you have another HDD drive that you can restore the old image to and mount as a second drive and just browse too?
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yep.
but it seems the only way at least for the firefox bookmarks, would be to somehow run firefox from the old HD and export the bookmarks to a file.
 
Have you had a look in here on the old HDD? C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ (thats an XP path) I have backups that I did not take but I use foxmarks so that might be causing them not sure just a thought
 
Originally posted by: jameswhite1979
Have you had a look in here on the old HDD? C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ (thats an XP path) I have backups that I did not take but I use foxmarks so that might be causing them not sure just a thought
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Thanks so much for the help, there was a bookmarks file, which was 1mb, and also a bookmarks backup folder in there.
Got them all back, thanks again for the help everyone!
 
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