OS not found Desktop Computer issue

Dear friend,
I am writing this question with great pain as I all time favorite desktop computer has started troubling me in my exam time only. It is good thing because of the fact that I won’t play games, but it is also troubling because, whenever I start to study I think about computer. I took it to service person also. He said, he wants to install new OS for which he needs to format my hard disk. I cannot agree because I have only import and documents, videos and some college materials in C drive. Can anybody help me to recover the data? I am worried.
