Need to recover Chrome bookmarks from unmountable drive

My hard drive failed recently, and although I can plug it in via USB, and see the files, it cannot be mounted as it is too corrupted (I've tried absolutely everything under the sun to fix it; let's leave it at that).
I mistakenly thought my Chrome bookmarks were being synched, and am stuck with ones that are about 10 months old, and really need the up to date version.
I am unable to see the Chrome folder on my old drive (Library/Application Data) in order to try and recover the more recent bookmarks.
Although I've been able to copy other files over, I can't figure out a way to 'reveal' the hidden Chrome folder likely due to permission issues.
As the drive cannot be mounted, programs like Paragon aren't any help.
My new system is running 10.9, the old was 10.8 (not sure which update it was up to).
Hope someone can help, and this made sense

Sorry, I meant I was looking in Library/Application Support.
3am here...

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