Help formating a MiniSD card to FAT32

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Here's the 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?
 
Apparently not, if so I cannot find it and the Palm support site says to
format it on your PC. I just cannot find out why it won’t format to FAT32 but
will format to FAT.
 
FAT will work fine in most cases.
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Doug
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SteveB said:
Apparently not, if so I cannot find it and the Palm support
site says to
format it on your PC. I just cannot find out why it won’t
format to FAT32 but
will format to FAT.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I finally got the card formated FAT16 (it
just will not format to FAT32) but the device does not recognize it. I've
even tried Flash Format on the Treo and it doesn't recognize the card. The
card vendor has graciously agreed to provide another card so I can determine
if it is the card or the Treo. Hopefully the new card will come tomorrow and
I'll know what direction this is going to take!
 
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