Unable to format 32GB micro-SD card

A few days ago I was copying some stuff on a 32 GB micro-SD card put inside an SD adapter, via my laptop's SD card reader slot and the copy froze.

I already had a backup of the data, so I decide to just unplug the card and reformat it if something went wrong. Something did go wrong, since I was asked to reformat the memory card as soon as I put it back in the slot, but now I can't reformat it.

I've tried to format it via Windows Explorer and sometimes it freezes, sometimes it says "Unable to format". Disk Management freezes too, as does the command line format and a third party, low-level format tool.

What can I do to get this micro-SD card formatted?

Solution 1:

This happened to me as well, I'm not very fond of Explorer's formatting techniques. If you have a Mac or Linux machine around, use that to format it. Disk Utility on mac is great. I'm pretty sure it would also format on an Android if you can plug it in the phone (b/c it's Linux and pretty hardcore) and maybe some of the higher end cameras.

That's the easiest way to do so, if not, I would recommend looking for a windows program that formats the card 'securely' so that everything's wiped off of it.