Transferring photos back to my computer after a hard drive crash

my macbook harddrive crashed and there were some photos on my iphone that werent backed up. i tried to import them onto the new hard drive but it wouldnt allow me to import some of them. i went to iphoto and said "import all" but it told me not all the photos could be synced and now when i tried again they just didnt show up at all in iphoto but theyre still on my phone. im hoping that i dont have to resort to emailing every picture to myself and acessing them that way from my computer but i dont know what else to do! can anyone help me??
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The hard drive on this computer crashed, as in replacement with another hard drive was required?
Or did this crash require the hard drive being reformatted prior to performing an erase and install or a re-install or OS X and all apps?
Either way, your prospects are good.
When a hard drive has not been reformatted, it is usually possible to recover data that was deleted from the hard drive as long as the area on the hard drive where this data had been stored has not been overwritten since the data was deleted.
Stop using the computer or computer's hard drive followed by using a data recovery utility on the hard drive ASAP are important - the sooner the better.
If your hard drive was reformatted after the crash, your chances for recovering this data are greatly reduced if not impossible.
Backup, backup, backup - always maintain a regular backup of all your important data stored on an external drive used for backup purposes only.

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