Backup Windows corrupted bookmarks to Internet Explorer!

Can someone help with this problem? I am running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 on my HP Pavilion.   I recently performed a backup on an external hard drive (WD Passport) by using Windows backup - it seemed to go OK, but when I open the Internet Explorer browser, 702 favorites were gone!  Worse yet, I can't even create a new favorite with 'Add to Favorites' more.

I know that the files are still there as I see the computer C:\Users\Helen\Favorites in but for some reason any IE8 has ceased to recognize their (and stopped allowing me to create new ones).

Ironically, if I open Firefox, it picked the IE8 Favorites!

It's really annoying - someone has any suggestions how to fix it?  I even tried looking in the registry (as advised on a forum of Microsoft), but the path of the shell for Favorites folders seems to be OK (C:\Users\Helen\Favorites)

I googled all kinds of sites but impossible to find a solution - HELP!

Hello PurpleHelen, you can try using a restore point Windows at a time before problems appear.

If this does not resolve the problem, you could try to export your FireFox bookmarks to a location on your hard drive and then open Internet Explorer and try to import these exports FireFox favorites.

Just something to try.

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