Hard drive crash, want to recover photo's from iPhone.

Hello,
Since I've my iPhone, I have no backups of my iPhoto directory. I thought that two places (PC & iPhone) would be enough for a 100% cover.
Now the worst happened, my HD bailed on me. Bought a new HD, reinstalled OS X.
But when I connected my iPhone, there was no way to recover the photo's of it!
I'm not talking about the photo's taken with the iPhone, but the photo library.
Can anyone advise me on how to recover my photo library from my iPhone?
Greetings,
Daniel

Iphone is not a storage device. This pics that are synced to iphone are optimized for viewing on iphone and are of lower quality than the original.
You should always back-up important info on an external source (external Hard drive for example).
You can e-mail them to yourself, one at a time. They will not be of original quality.

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