Recover iPhoto pictures from a hard drive?

Hello,
My hard drive of my Macbook Pro crashed, and a day before it happened I moved ALL the pictures from my phone to iPhoto.
All the pics I ever had with and of my dog who died are there.
I wanted to ask if there's a way to recover them from the hard drive?
I don't know what is wrong with the hard drive so I just wanted to ask if there's even a chance to recover them?
They gave me back my Mac all fixed but with a new hard drive because the last one kept crashing.
Please please answer

Are you able to mount the old drive so you can access files on it?  From your comment "I cannot open the iphoto version in my old drive"  I'm assuming you can somehow.
Therefore copy the library to your new Mac and try to open the library from there.  If you can copy the library to you new Mac but can't open it with iPhoto open it with the Finder and follow these directions:
Starting over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
1. Open the library package like this.
2. Launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
3. Drag the subfolders of the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the open iPhoto Library package into the open iPhoto window a few at a time.
This will create a new library with the same Events (but not necessarily the same Event names) as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects.
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