I have accidentally formatted the hard drive connected to my Windows PC. It has erased all my important files, including my wedding photos. Now I am looking for recovery methods to get those deleted ...

An unformatted drive in File Explorer means Windows can’t recognize the file system and makes the drive inaccessible. You can use these methods to recover data from an unformatted drive in Windows ...

All this is assuming you can still boot into Windows 11/10 in a regular way. If you cannot, the only way is to use a bootable USB drive. You can then use the advanced recovery. Reset Windows Format ...