External Hard Drive has failed!! How do I get a copy of my Photos off Apple

My Western Digital external hards drive has failed. None of the data can be recovered. I basically held my music & photo collection. Most off my music is still on my iMac so no problem there. However, I has moved my entire photo collection onto the External Hard Drive. The only way I can recover it is to copy the photos that I (fortunately) copied onto my Apple TV. The question is how Do I do this?
There must be some whizzy piece of software out there that can do the job?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4S2l9neKM

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