Windows 10: Lost Edge Faves After Factory Wipe and Win 10 Reinstall ... Now What?

OK, here's the order of awful events:

1. I install Windows 10, and there's much rejoicing (for about a week).
2. I switch to MS Edge because it seems so awesome. I move all of my browser favorites from Chrome to Edge, and them remove them from Chrome to "clean it up" (since I now only use Chrome for work-related stuff). I realize, looking back, what a dumb move this was.
3. In my irrational exuberance over Windows 10, I don't bother backing up my favorites.
4. It all falls apart about a week in, when I experience, a) Idle computer turning into a black screen with no mouse and a non-responsive keyboard, b) The dreaded Win 10 reboot loop, c) Laptop overheating that actually BURNS skin, and d) a complete meltdown of the system, which includes failure of all diagnostic tests and an eventual emergency factory reset of the laptop.
5. During this reset, of course, I tried to save some files, but I wasn't that successful. I was so frustrated at that point that I just opted to move forward with the complete wipe so I could have a working computer.
6. After some tough love and trust exercises, I reinstalled Windows 10 and we're living in a kind of delicate peace.

EXCEPT - all of my dozens of bookmarks, collected over several years, are completely gone. I can't find them in any hidden nook of the computer, nor in any of my backup files on my external drive. Am I screwed? Tell it to me straight.

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Favorites disappeared from Microsoft Edge after November upgrade

I lost a bunch of my favourites in Edge after I got home from Christmas away and some update ran on my PC. I tried the last user's fix to "import them from IE" even though I never created them in IE, I created them in Edge - and I am afraid I did not get
the desired results. Some old faves appeared from somewhere but all the faves I created from the last few months are gone. Very frustrating! I guess I am going to give up on Edge too although I was finding it to be pretty fast. And I am going to have to try
to recreate all those faves, if I can even find them again.... AAARGH, this is not how I was planning to spend my time tonight.

 

Import windows 7 favourites to Windows 10favorites

So my understanding from post response's is that in order to get my favorites into windows 10 is to hit the hub icon in edge and choose import faves. Then choose which browser to import from(i.e. 11 in my case, from win 7). Is that about right?