Possible to Recover LiveUSB Overlay Image?

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Last night I ran into a bit of bad luck. The Fedora 9 LiveUSB stick that 
I've been using on my notebook for several months stopped responding so 
I did a hard reset of the notebook thinking that it'll just reboot and 
everything would be fine.

As usual, I was wrong. On boot, I now drop into a recovery shell with a 
"good luck" message. Apparently, I'm not the first one to discover this 
(see https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/28 ). While I'm not 
so anxious to fix the installation, I would like to try to recover my 
files from the overlay image, but  I'm not sure how to go about this. 
It's not critical that I recover these files, but it would be nice.

I was hoping that I could just mount the image like most other disk 
images, but that didn't seem to work. Does anyone have any suggestions 
on where I can find information about recovering the files, or have 
direct answers for me? Is it even possible with standard tools?

Thank you,
Raymond