As MURACU sugeested...slave the disk into another machine and pull the data off

Personally I find this the best way to get the data off a drive...
that way you can the start mucking with the system and partition...and you have the data stored safely off the disk you will be mucking with

Hi Ommy from your flag (if I have interpreted correctly) I hope that all your family and relatives are OK?
ALso as Nihil said, if your flag is right, then i hope all your family and friends are safe.
Ditto

MLF