Recovering data from RAW pendrive

Tigro

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I found a pendrive which became corrupted (RAW) a long time ago (don't even remember when) and decided to try to recover the data from it. I did a bit of file recoveries in my life so I reckoned it shouldn't be too hard - weirdly, it is.

I tried Ontrack 10 and 11, EaseUS Data Recovery, the freeware 4 Card Recovery, Windows Data Recovery and iCara data recovery - none of them could do anything. Some didn't even give me a choice to select my pendrive drive letter as if it wasn't connected, the others simply showed an empty list. The only thing I found was some lone JPEG using Ontrack. Chkdsk does nothing as the pendrive is RAW which is not supported. What else can I try?