Help Needed - I think we have lost our photos to the iphone

Our pc crashed yesterday and my fella had to reinstall all of the software which wiped off all of our photos of our 9 month old from the C drive. I was absolutely gutted until he said it's OK they're on my iphone we can get them back.
We don't seem to be able to transfer them back from the iphone to the pc. If they weren't originally taken on the iphone is this not possible?

There may be a 3rd party utility that provides for this but something you should be aware of, photos transferred from your computer to your iPhone are "optimized" as part of the iTunes sync/transfer process for viewing with the iPhone. The original resolution for these photos is permanently lost if you are able to transfer these photos from your iPhone to your computer.
Hindsight is 20/20, but this is one of the reasons why maintaining a backup of your important data is so very important. It isn't a matter of if but when your hard drive has a partial or complete failure since none last forever. It doesn't matter how new or old a computer or computer's hard drive is. This is important regardless the platform, but even more so with a Windows PC with constant virus, adware, and spyware concerns.
The iPhone is not designed for use as a backup device or media, and should not be considered as such.
Unless someone else here can recommend an available 3rd party utility for recovering these photos, try a Google search.

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