How to restore from an incomplete backup

Hi,
I have an emergency situation. I had an iPhone 4S that I hadn't backed up in over a year on iTunes. I also never upgraded to any of the new iOS version so I guess it still had the version before the maps app was changed so I guess iOS 5? Anyways I was backing it up and my daughter either cancelled the backup or something went wrong and it never fully backed up. I never got to backing it up again and then a couple of days later my daughter dropped the phone in water and the phone got water damage. I then went and bought a 5S and tries to restore from iCloud. The backup is on the cloud but is listed as incomplete but is taking up over 8GB of space on the cloud so I am assuming something must have gotten backed up. It will not let me restore from that backup. What can I do to solve this problem. I have about 3 years of pictures on it that phone that I need to get back. To make matters even worse the computer that I had backed my phone up on over a year ago just crashed a couple of weeks ago so I don't even have access to that backup. I spoke to one of the genius at apple store and they have no idea what to do. Is there anyway to resolve this issue via apple or via some other third party application or software or company that I could pay who could fix this. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

I don't think that you can restore your device from an incomplete backup. However I searched a little bit and found the following post. I hope it will help you further:
If you have an incomplete backup on iCloud. The best way to push that over is to set-up your phone as a new phone, then during the activation (select language, select location services, that part) select to restore from iCloud backup. That was the apple tech's advise, but unfortunately that didn't help in my case.
Another option is to get the iPhone Backup Extractor from Cnet and it will allow you to see what's backed up in your backup directrory (the path is: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\MobileSync\Backup\)
The free versions has limitations when extracting, but I only used it to see what's there. Once I saw that there were only 250 pics backed up, I knew that my 500 pics were gone.
Finally there is an expensive solution via DriveSavers.com. Apple has worked with them for years. Every time you erase something on your devise, it's still there, it just gets assigned a value telling your operating system that the data can be written over what you (thought you) erased . So those guys got the expertise to get you your data, but it's not cheap, with prices ranging from 400 - 1700.

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