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You might look for a data recovery tool. I've had luck in the past using them. Also, if you still have the Mac and it wasn't the drive that died you can remove the drive and use a USB HDD adapter to connect it to another machine.
edit: just read the text again and saw it was the drive dying, bummer.... Data loss sucks.
An additional problem is that the Mac is stuck to MacOS 10.7, so even if it boots again, I can't install anything because "this operating system is not supported". I would need to find some decade old recovery program somehow. Or find another Mac and some USB enclosure