Accessing an iPhone backup from OSX using Bootcamp with XP

Hi guys,
Something has gone horribly wrong with the OSX partition on my Macbook Pro. It seems like something has become corrupted, and I can no longer reboot into OSX. I can however continue to use my XP partition and can access all my files from there. I'm planning on eventually backing up all the data, and just doing a complete reinstall but I'm heading off to the states from the UK in 10 days and need to restore my iphone to a backup I had on the mac partition - it contains all my US contacts and data. Is there any way I can access the backup via bootcamp?
Thanks,
James.

sure navigate to the path and copy out the files
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