Mark Twain wrote:
I'm only throwing at you what the
computer is giving me and if you're
confused you can image how I am.

It doesn't respond to F12 or F8 even
after powering the computer offon
and restarting it several times.

So even though it booted fine and
seems fine its bypasses the F12 and F8
commands.

I thought all I needed was the rescue
disk. Again if I use Macrium to create
an OS for the 1TB won't that wipe
everything out?

You also said if I could download and
install FF maybe the bookmarks are still
there?

Robert

But you still haven't told me the format of these
bookmarks of yours.

The internal representation, is stored in
bookmarkbackups. And the file extension is
jsonlz4. You're not likely to be keeping
a shortcut that points to that directory,
as the format is not readable by humans. I
had to write a very short C program, to be
able to get at those files.

If you do an "Export" in Firefox, of the bookmarks
it keeps, that file output is HTML and portable to other
platforms and situations. A human can read such a
file, or click stuff in it and so on. You can easily
read the URLs in such a file.

The "Exported" file would not be kept in either of
the FIrefox folders. You'd keep it in your home
directory or something.

You can reinstall Firefox, using the installer
on the download page. You could use the 8200 to
snag the file if need be. How this typically works
in 2015, is this is a stub installer (only a few
megabytes). When you click the downloaded stub file,
it will download the rest of the installer for the
purpose. Why this is necessary, isn't clear.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

You can use Agent Ransack and look for

bookmark
jsonlz4
htm
html

and so on, looking for things that match your
expectation of the bookmark format you were
using.

It's quite possible you have two copies of the
same information. The jsonlz4 copies (usable
once you fix up a working copy of Firefox on the
machine). Or the HTML file you exported at
some point. I don't export mine all that often,
maybe twice a year for safety.

If you have been copying and pasting URLs into
a Notepad text document, then that's entirely
different. And you'd enter the most likely
file name you've been using for that.

If you're booted from the 2TB, you can spend as much
time as you like carrying out Agent Ransack searches
of the 1TB drive.

Paul