You can recover pictures, word documents, videos files from formatted hard drive in Windows 8 with file recovery software. Asoftech data recovery program can recover data from formatted, lost or damaged hard drive or partition, Ghost hard drive.

# Recover lost, formatted or deleted ( word, excel, ppt, office document, video zip, photo files etc ) from hard drive, Support USB recovery and other disk recovery .

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I accidentally formatted my main hard drive and windows 8 was also deleted. I do have a recovery USB and I am currently running it to reinstall windows 8. Is there any way to recover all or most of my files? Ex pictures, word documents, videos, programs. These are very important to me and I would appreciate any help.