How do I retrieve my old bookmards and search history from firefox when firefox has been put into a windows.old directory?

I have a new desktop computer of approximately 4 months which is running Windows 8. I had some issues with malware about 2 months back and installed Malwarebytes, and Avast and this seem to take care of the issues. All was working fine until Friday 08/09/13 when at the end of work day my computer decided to restart itself and boot into an 'auto repair' mode which it seemed to stuck in so I left it and came back into the office on Saturday and saw the message 'unable to auto-repair'. So then windows 8 gave me two options - either to restart or advanced options. I opted to do a 'pc refresh' in the advanced options section and what this does remove all applications installed not through the app store and places them in a windows.old folder. So I was able to locate windows.old/users/Carlos/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/ but not sure what to do from here.

You're almost there. When you look in that Profiles folder, you should see one or more folders with semi-randomized names. The most recent one probably is your last active profile.
You have a lot of options for how to recover:
* Restore last bookmarks backup ([[Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer]])
* Manually copy over saved password files to your currently active profile folder ([[Recovering important data from an old profile]])
* Attempt a complete "transplant" of your old settings folder to your new installation of Firefox (e.g., this thread: [https://support.mozilla.org/questions/965036 how to install and migrate info to a new laptop with Win 8])

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