Can I back up iTunes in safe mode? Please help!!!!!

My windows vista laptop is about to die and I can only access it from safe mode. I want to back up my iTunes library but it's empty in iTunes when I access it in this mode. It's all still there because the disk drive is still full. Can I back up my library from folders and files through documents and not through iTunes itself? Many thanks.

Normally in C:\Users\<User>\Music. Unless already backed up via other means you should probably backup each <User> folder in C:\Users at a minimum so that you can selectively restore the data later,
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