So basically my Windows 10 64-bit had become very slow and glitchy, so for the past few months I've been slowly getting all my files off onto my 2TB backup drive (Win10 is on a WD 1TB HDD). Today I re-installed the OS and started to put my stuff back on it. I started by re-planting my "google" and "Mozilla Firefox" folders into the Programs (x86) folder, but when I opened those programs to see if it still worked, I found out my restored tabs, Bookmarks/Favourites, History and probably more is missing.
So it turns out these Geniuses who made Firefox and Chrome thought it would be a brilliant idea to put the profile data in a completely different location...I thought they would have been sensible enough to put everything in one place so I didn't bother to double check where the profiles were stored. Its my fault for not double checking, but still frustrating at the same time. So I didn't actually backup my browsers...also the only cloud thing I use is gmail/g+ so unless it tied my profile (Which it seems like is not the case) to them automatically then I don't think it's on any cloud.
On the new Windows 10 (Still on the same WB 1TB HDD) I have only re-added chrome, firefox and I downloaded a "GPU driver downloader", but not activated that yet. So if I'm lucky my profiles might still be intact and possibly recoverable. How do you recommend I go about recovering this data.
If it turns out my profiles have already been overwritten then I might just have a backup of them on my Samsung 1TB HDD, you see sometime last year I cloned the entire WD 1TB HDD onto the Samsung 1TB HDD to see if the glitchiness and slowness were caused by the WD HDD itself, but when I tested the Samsung clone it was just as slow/buggy. So I deleted the partition and put the Samsung drive on my shelf. If I remember correctly I have not used the Samsung HDD since so I should have a backup of my profiles there, but again I need a way to navigate and find those files.
However like I said that was last year sometime, I can't remember how many more bookmarks/favourites I made since then and if my "Restored Tabs" have changed since then, so I only want to consider recovering from the Samsung drive as a last resort.
So it turns out these Geniuses who made Firefox and Chrome thought it would be a brilliant idea to put the profile data in a completely different location...I thought they would have been sensible enough to put everything in one place so I didn't bother to double check where the profiles were stored. Its my fault for not double checking, but still frustrating at the same time. So I didn't actually backup my browsers...also the only cloud thing I use is gmail/g+ so unless it tied my profile (Which it seems like is not the case) to them automatically then I don't think it's on any cloud.
On the new Windows 10 (Still on the same WB 1TB HDD) I have only re-added chrome, firefox and I downloaded a "GPU driver downloader", but not activated that yet. So if I'm lucky my profiles might still be intact and possibly recoverable. How do you recommend I go about recovering this data.
If it turns out my profiles have already been overwritten then I might just have a backup of them on my Samsung 1TB HDD, you see sometime last year I cloned the entire WD 1TB HDD onto the Samsung 1TB HDD to see if the glitchiness and slowness were caused by the WD HDD itself, but when I tested the Samsung clone it was just as slow/buggy. So I deleted the partition and put the Samsung drive on my shelf. If I remember correctly I have not used the Samsung HDD since so I should have a backup of my profiles there, but again I need a way to navigate and find those files.
However like I said that was last year sometime, I can't remember how many more bookmarks/favourites I made since then and if my "Restored Tabs" have changed since then, so I only want to consider recovering from the Samsung drive as a last resort.