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[thaive]

seeing as i think i'm screwed i have found out some more information that may be helpful to other people.

for alot of information about recovering stuff visit http://www2.geek.com/discus/messages/37/8902.html?1105938306

but the majority of what i thoguht would be my saviour would be killdisk - where it forces the disc to be replaced with 0's  and from there u can reformat it - unfortunately it does not read my usb device so no luck - still perhaps someone else's it will.

[cory1492]

Try taking the card into a local/smallish PC shop where the people who work there actually know about PC's (not saying that anyone here cant help or dont know but... well read on and you'll see why I mean dont take it to futureshop or bestbuy);

the article you pointed to speaks of USB 2.0 and 1.1 hardware - I have a el-cheapo USB 1.1 5in1 writer (the one I got with my supercard here)and it will not ever do low level formats because it uses only default windows drivers and may not have the ability to write the initial bootstrap properly once its corrupted. My brother on the other hand has an dell inspirion with a built in SD reader that I dont think relies on the USB port but wrather is hooked up to a serial one, and when my PC/card reader wont deal with an SD card I take it to that one's reader for a formatting on a fully drivered SD reader/writer.

Im willing to bet if you took it to a shop where you will find someone who knows alot and has more access to hardware, they will be able to format it and fix it for you in a more expensive/better card writer than the one you have.

edit:/also, if you have access to a linux PC that will accept your reader, fdisk is much more robust on those systems and I have heard of it working on those when it wont work on a windows PC

[thaive]

hey, thanks for the great reply cory, what you said makes sense, i have an el-cheapo usb2 sd/mmc card reader so perhaps it too cannot do what you ask.

i'll look into it - many thanks