Hard drive crashed, hwo to restore bookmarks from external hard drive backup?

I am running Windows7 64-bit with Firefox 6. I back up nightly with WD Smartware.
two days ago my hard drive gave out. I now have a new drive with Win7 and Firefox reinstalled. I am trying to restore my bookmarks from the backup on the external hard drive. Is this possible?

HP   Windows XP   need
to replace hard drive The hard drive
containing my I tunes library has crashed. I am
using XP home edition on a PC. I need to restore the
library of legaly purchased songs from the Ipod nano
to my replacement hard drive. Since the Ipod is the
only place the songs are at the moment, I need as
risk free replacement method as possible. Any one
out there actually done this?
HP   Windows XP   need to
replace hard drive
I am in the predicament right now. Is there a way to do it?

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