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Getting my Chrome bookmarks back from a crashed PC's hard drive

Old desktop won't boot anymore but the drive is fine and I've connected it to my new laptop. Wasn't signed into Chrome sync. Which file holds the bookmarks and where is it?
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nikhil_15 Nov 04, 2026
manish
Easy if the drive still reads. Hook it up to another PC with a USB adapter or enclosure and go to Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default (or Profile 1 if you had more than one profile). AppData is hidden, so turn on hidden items in Explorer. You want the file called Bookmarks with no extension, and Bookmarks.bak next to it as a fallback. Close Chrome on the new machine, copy that file into the same folder there replacing the existing one, open Chrome and they're back. And if you were signed into Chrome sync on the old PC, just signing in on the new one may bring them back without any of this.
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