http://wiki.meego.com/N950/Fixing_MALF_state

Follow instructions on that wiki page till step 7 to access your full device contents...

You can use "dd" to pack your rootfs and userfs partition which you can then restore as is to your new N9 too... EMMC data of course you can transfer out and do a manual transfer into the new n9...

Using "dd" though will put your phone into open mode so if you don't want to use open mode just get your data out from the old N9 but don't use dd to transfer it into the new N9...