Lost my photos from my iPhone

Help I seem to have lost my photos off my iPhone. I had an iPhone 4 and then upgraded to iPhone 4S but was able to keep my phones from iPhone 4 but it shows up as "Photos" in my 4S and any new photos I took on my new phone was saved in camera roll. I synced to iTunes on my mac and it has deleted from my iPhone all photos saved in "photos" but kept all in camera roll. How can I get back my photos lost?! Somebody help as these old photos are very precious to me.

Hi deekswife,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
If you want to view Photo Stream photos on a Windows computer you will first need the iCloud Control Panel installed. Once installed, there will be an iCloud Photos location selected on your computer. Please review the following article as a reference.
iCloud: Set up My Photo Stream
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13693
On a Windows computer
Install the iCloud Control Panel if it isn’t already installed on your computer.
Open the iCloud Control Panel, then turn on Photos.My Photo Stream is set up by default. To turn it off, click Options, then turn off My Photo Stream.
To change the iCloud Photos location on your computer, click Options. Click Change to choose a folder, then click OK.
Click Apply.
I hope this helps,
-Joe

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