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Jaygar
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_ 		1. September 2007 @ 16:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I recently had the pleasure of having my system die secondary to a MB or CPU failure. And rather than try to rebuild the old 1-ghz system my son and I put together a new 3.4-ghz system with a new SATA drive. We installed WXP-pro on the new drive (Same OS as before). We attached the old C: drive and the old backup drive as slaves via a maxtor AT133 IDE card. The system works nicely, but I can't find my Opera bookmarks on either of the old drives. I installed FireFox rather than Opera on the new system because I found that at least one of the sites I use doesn't work properly with Opera. I reinstalled Opera and still can't find the bookmarks. Just for the heck of it I had tried to boot from the old C: when I first attached it but of course it wouldn't boot - not really a surprise. But could this have somehow disappeared some of my old data. It appears that some old Quicken data files are gone too.

I sure don't relish the idea of rebuilding my library of bookmarks.

Any suggestions to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.
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sammorris
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_ 		2. September 2007 @ 12:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Unfortunately I can't help you with the lost bookmarks, but what I can say is that trying to boot from the old drive (which would never have worked) won't have caused it any harm.
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jony218
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_ 		3. September 2007 @ 01:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
have you done a search in the old drive for the file opera6.adr ? I think thats the file you need to find. It should still be in your old drive in the windows directory. As long as the old drive is not damaged, the bookmarks are still there, when you find the file, just have firefox import them over. I'm not sure if it's a hidden file, you might want to choose the setting that shows hidden files in the control panel just in case.
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