A bit hard, but not crazy. You have to potentially deal with not knowing the mappings, but even random blocks will have obvious marks like Json fragments with "password=", crypto keys with common PEM/DER headers, high entropy 8/16/32-byte data, etc.
sudo strings /dev/sda | more # press q to quit
You'll immediately see plain text of various things on your hard drive, complete HTML, etc. Eye opening.