Help! Accidentally deleted my Windows 8 partition. Can I recover it?

Hi all,
I have a bit of a problem.
While I was trying deleting/formatting a USB stick connected to my rMBP, I accidentally selected the windows partition on my HDD instead of the USB. I then preceded to rename and click "erase," just before realising what I'd done!
As you can imagine, I was pretty annoyed with myself, but I hoped that I was mistaken and booting into windows would would work as normal... This didn't happen. Is there anything I can do to get back to 'the old days' and recover my Windows instalation/partition?
Any help you can give will be greately appreciated.
Thanks.

If you had sensitive data on that partition, then you'll have to make the decision of how much money it's worth to get it all back via recovery software or a recovery service like OnTrack.  If all that was on there was Windows 8 and some programs you can easily reload (i.e. your only cost is your time), then just reload it like you did originally through the BootCamp wizard.  If this is the case, consider it a learning experience and move on.  I once deleted the Microsoft User Data folder from my Documents folder thinking (What's this doing here...) lol.  You can imagine how surprised I was when I started Outlook and nothing was there.  I was like... SOB!

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