My MB crashed, a friend put our hard drive in another computer- windows xp, the original hard drive is running the computer and I don't have access to any of my bookmarks or history. I've searched through all the helps and nothing seems to fit my case.

Question

I don't know if I have a "profile", can't find the hidden files or instructions to find them, can't find the firefox.exe file on old hard drive - followed each solution as far as I could and nothing has helped so far.

Answer 1

First of all please remember the advice in my post about backing up information and bookmarks before making changes. Note also
*if you use options from Windows or Firefox to delete personal information it will (or at least will try to ) delete all information from all versions of firefox installed. Do NOT use such options it is likely to destroy History, Bookmarks and Passwords.
* you will have only one copy of History, unless you manually backup the database places.sqlite you could easily loose all your History
IIRC restoring a computer using Windows does not always work in restoring firefox properly, I seem to recall it does not restore all required files.
''So, I should be able to follow this help to take care of the problem? Just move it from the original drive to C drive/new profile that's currently running?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
<u>Recomended method move ''places.sqlite''</u><br/>
You will need to read the above linked instructions carefully. Rather than trying to move the profile itself I was expecting you to follow instructions to just copy required files such as the Bookmarks and History that would be in the database file ''places.slite''.
<u>Advanced Method edit ''Profiles.ini' to point at original profile on other Hard Disk Drive'</u><br/>
There is an alternative method and that is to leave the old profile where it is and use that with the new Firefox installation. I tend to manually move profiles but this is not really recommended as it is easy to make mistakes. You will certainly find the method in the above paragraph easier If you want to try the alternative method then note that
*a file called ''Profiles.ini'' will need editing
*you will need to use Relative=0 and the full path
* see
** http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file
** http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder#Modify_profiles.ini_to_point_to_the_new_location_-_Advanced
<u>Copy old profile content to New profile</u><br/>
This should be relatively easy and work If the versions of Firefox are the same and the original profile was working properly. Note you copy the contents and all sub files and folders, but you do not copy the folder name. So do not completely overwrite the new profile, this is because they will have differing names, Firefox adds pseudo random strings to the name.( In the case of your original profile; from your above post; that includes '''''i7twob91''''' in the name)
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder#Create_a_new_profile_and_migrate_your_old_data <br/>(Note you will not need to create a new profile in your case it will already exist)