The bookmarks under Win XP Firefox did not transfer to Win 7 FireFox with Easy Transfer

I followed the MS instructions for migrating my PC to Win 7 from WIN XP. I used Easy Transfer to save my settings to an external HD. After installing Win 7 as a custom install I used Easy Transfer per the instructions to transfer user accounts and settings back to my PC. I then began to reinstall my programs. When I reinstalled FireFox 28 the bookmarks were not complete. Many folders were in the bookmark list but the all of the urls that I saved in these folders were not there. I went to the external HD that I used for Easy Transfer but there is only one program listed that when I click on wants to do Easy Transfer again. I don't think I want to do that. How can I restore my bookmarks?

I haven't used Easy Transfer myself. I'll need you to do a little manual exploration on your new setup.
First, check whether you have extra profile folders. If the data was copied over before you installed Firefox, it should have found and loaded your earlier settings, but in case it missed them, let's see whether they are there.
From within Firefox, open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using
Help > Troubleshooting Information > (in the first table) "Show Folder" button
Windows Explorer should open and display the files. In the address bar, click the word Profiles to move up to the Profiles folder. Can you see multiple folders there?
If so, your bookmarks might be in one of the other folders. More on how to check if you do find one.
If not, could your old settings have been copied in under a different user name? I'm not sure how Easy Transfer handles this. If you click Users in the address bar, Windows Explorer should display your user folder and any other user folders on the PC. If any of those match your old user name, your data could be in there.
To explore user folders, you generally need to turn off Windows' default feature of hiding certain folders from you. This article has the steps: [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files].
For each candidate user folder, drill down to AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and check for possible transferred user data. Anything?

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