Help formating a MiniSD card to FAT32

[SBrown]

Here's my issue. I just recently acquired a new Palm Treo 750 smartphone w/Win Mobile 5. The specs say it uses a MiniSD expansion card up to 2GB. Not wanting anything but the best, I ordered a Palm branded 2GB card! My phone used it a day then quit recognizing it. A search of the Palm site presented the instructions to "Make sure that the MiniSD card is formatted to FAT32 and re-insert card". When I placed the card on my laptop it wouldn't recognize it either, in fact, it causes the "My Computer" service to quit responding. I've attempted to format the card to FAT32 and get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format" and everything stops. I can format it to FAT just fine but the phone won't recognize the card. I've tried to format it via the Windows utility and command line but to no avail.

A google search of the messages provides the advice to try formating the card to NTFS then to FAT32 but the Windows utility doesn't provide that option and when I try to do it via command line I'm "told" the disk is optimized for removal and cannot be formatted to NTFS.

Can anyone tell me how to format this stupid little card to FAT32?

THANKS!

[PPCPassion]

I usually USE Pocket Mechanic program to format the card in my Pocket PC. Just download the trial and try to format the card to FAT 32. You can download at Handango website by clicking on the following link or any software website of your choice:
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&osId=798&jid=F2CAE8X7F9253E222BE1X55F42D5D22C&N=4294923702&Ntt=pocket%20mechanic&R=94860

Good Luck!

[Crazie.Eddie]

Sounds like a bad SD card.

[Cybrid]

I can format it to FAT just fine but the phone won't recognize the card. I've tried to format it via the Windows utility and command line but to no avail.
Can anyone tell me how to format this stupid little card to FAT
Have you tried read/write tests in FAT16? Most PPC's and PC's should read it just fine. That is wierd.
Try some alternative partition tools.
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80