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Originally Posted by PatNY
When the card went "bad" I tried formatting it in Windows, disk partitioning apps I had, and even sdformatter. Nothing was working and so I was just going to throw it away. For some reason I didn't.
When I saw your post, I thought, what the heck, why not try once more. So I opened up sdformatter, used the middle option (I think it's full erase) and it worked! 
So thanks for the suggestion. I might have tried again in the future but I probably would have just thrown it away eventually without trying again.
--Pat |
You probably could have also wiped it in Windows Disk Management. It was probably formatted or partitioned in a way that Windows doesn't understand (Linux EXT2/EXT4 file system, etc).
Windows->System->Administrative Tools->Create and Format hard disk partitions. You'd probably have seen the device here (it shows devices even without valid file systems on them), and you could have right click/wiped it there. But you can also do some damage there to a secondary disk drive or something if you aren't PC saavy and wipe the wrong device.