Do you need a program to search (not restore) data on a formatted disk?

Question

Hard disks

The bottom line is that the desired partition has already been formatted (quick) and the system has been installed there. Easyrecovery no longer finds anything, but you need a program that can search for data on the "surface" of the disk. We are talking about several kilobytes of textual information.

Answer 1

DD + Hiew or any other HEX editor.

Answer 2

www.data-recovery-software.net/ru
free version: rlab.ru/tools/rsaver.html
www.rlab.ru/tools/ufs_explorer.html?lang=curr

The demo version has all the functionality of the product, except for recovering files larger than 256KB.
If lost files are found, but their size is more than 256KB, then they can be viewed using the built-in viewer that supports most of the common file formats.

Almost all programs of this kind first scan the disk for the surviving remains of the FS, display a list of files that they can recover with varying degrees of certainty, and restore them to another medium.
About "search for data" is not very clear - if you want to give the program a substring from the desired text and find it by it, this, as far as I know, does not happen.
But if you know the file name, then run a program like the ones above, look for the file name in the scan results, if you find it, try to restore it to another medium, spit three times over your shoulder, open it, and see either the desired text or rubbish.

Answer 3

Try dozens of partition imaging programs. Make a sector-by-sector image and search for it with a HEX editor.
For a start can try Active undelete? It has a user friendly presentation of the results of scanning remote partitions. Of course, you need to run it from third-party hdd + OS
And why store passwords with wallets in TXT?