Sorry to hear that, Gary!
I had have many HDDs chrashed in action. The most time it was only Windows that crashed and killed the boot section so that the HDD couldn't start anymore.

1. If you have installed your new system on your new HDD then put the old HDD on the primary slave (the new one should be on primary master), boot up your new system and peer at your windows manager if you can see the partitions of your old HDD. In the most cases the old datas can be saved on this way.
2. If this won't help anymore then try the way that Eddie adviced

I've never lost any data since about 2 or 3 years because the most HDDs do nevertheless work after a crash.
I hope you will save your pics at all!

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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)