Recover photos from Apple TV

Hi -
I know this has been partially addressed before, but my MacBook Pro crashed and I lost all of my data on my hard drive. The only things not recoverable or backed-up were photos, that were also synced to my Apple TV. Is there anyway to recover these photos? Even if it means removing the hard drive from my Apple TV? Thanks, in advance, for any guidance.
Ken.

Others have successfully removed the drive and got some old photos back though filenames change.
Someone recently posted a solution of swapping the drive into a Macbook instaed of it's internal drive, then booting from the installation DVD and copying to say a USB external drive. Could save purchase of a drive caddy, though I think MBP hard drive is trickier to access.
AC

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