Recovering data from iphone backup?

Hey guys,
I am busting my head over here trying to figure out how to do this.. to make a long story short, I've had a very unlucky past few weeks. My iphone (4g 32gb) fell into the ocean and all the data I had is lost. But then I rememberd I can still recover it from the itunes backup. Ordered a new phone.. the phone just came and before I could do a recovery from it we had a power outage and my laptop got fried. I've been told that the motherboard is fried and since it was an old laptop I didnt bother trying to fix it. (I switched to a MacBook Pro early this year - although the syncing was done on the windows laptop). So.. I took apart the laptop, took the hard disk and connected it to an external USB enclosure. I can access all the data from the hard disk. My question is, can I use this hard disk to do a recovery on the iphone? The old laptop was running on Windows 7. I have access to another laptop with windows 7 & windows xp & mac OSX Lion
-I've already tried booting from the hard disk, it wouldnt boot.. I keep getting the blue screen of death.
As long as I can get the contacts, sms's and photos on the new iphone im good.
Thank you in advance for your feed back!

I think its time to buy a samsung galaxy... and yes i know that if i would have manually backed up my photos then i wouldnt be in this prediciment, but it all went sound when the backup proceedure that apple build into their products failed.

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