OS X Problem :(

Whats up you guys. Unfortuently last night I booted up my MPB but I had the little Question Mark on the Hard Drive logo pop up, I ran disk utility, tried fixing it it just wouldn't recognize the HD so I had to partition and restore the computer. My biggest problem is I had some photos on there that I'd like back, is there any way to get it back? I'm not looking to buy a software for like 300 because it isn't life or deaeth but is there anything possibily that might help me? Also, since my iTunes was erased, is therea program that I can transfer my songs from my iPhone to my MBP again, I appreciate it.

there is nothing free to rescue data, you can demo Data Rescue to see if there is anything that can be retrieved

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/datarescueii.html

Senuti will allow you to get music back off your ipod tho

backups are important. it can't be said enough. burn important stuff to cd or dvd at the very least.... but full bootable backups are the way to go.

good luck getting your stuff back dude.