Egh if anyone could help out with this I'd be so happy. I've been messing with it for hours.
(sorry in advance about any typos, I'm getting pretty tired.)

Its not a super super huge deal, but I'd really prefer to get my bookmarks back. I had important stuff saved. ;u;

Earlier I was a derp and probably had too many things open at once. My computer wasn't really liking it, and so I closed most things and then decided I'd probably have to restart. I bookmarked some things that I was going to need later and restarted.

When I restarted and pulled Google Chrome up again, all my bookmarks were gone.
I asked a friend for help who said to pretty much restore the bookmarks file in the Chrome folder to a previous date. I did and restarted. No luck.

He suggested a system restore, but another friend said it only affects settings really, not folders and that it probably wouldn't help? (keep in mind I am totally clueless about computers so I dont even know.)
At this point I did have the System Restore thing open, with the most recent date being like 8 hours ago, which was great.

But to be on the safe side, I decided to try other things first. I tried to copy/paste the new bookmarks file (for backup) so I could then delete it.
Turns out its corrupted. I tried deleting it without backup, and it said it was in use.
Closed EVERYTHING Google Chrome related and again, still in use.

Tried copy/pasting the Default folder (the folder the bookmark file is in) to maybe replace it with a fixed bookmark file. Of course, it wouldn't let me copy/paste the corrupted file along with it which was fine. But then I couldn't delete the Default folder to replace it. So no go there.

Then I tried uninstalling Google Chrome. Figured well, it didn't get rid of these files when I uninstalled and thats what I need gone (or at least the corrupt file..). So I tried deleting the whole Chrome folder. Again, said it was in use, even after I uninstalled Google Chrome??? I dont think I restarted, maybe I needed to?

Some point in all this I DID restart again. Somewhere in all this I guess something happened? I went to finally try the System Restore, and now I have no restore points. So now I cant even do that ;u;
(looking back I probably should have done that first ergh..)

So if anyone could help me out with this, I'd be super grateful!
Like I said, its not a terribly huge deal, but it'd be really convenient for me if I could get them back.
And at this point I just want to fix it since I've been trying to for so long ;;

ALSO I'm using Windows 7 if that helps at all.

Sorry for rambling, and I hope I made some sense.
TL:DR I somehow screwed up my bookmarks. I lost all of them and now the file is corrupted. Halp?

Thanks for reading.