Unable to access MiniSD Card

[Amichai Rotman]

H,

When trying to format a MiniSD card, inserted to a card reader I get this:

sdc: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Dec 29 16:01:46 localhost kernel: [17245589.288000]     Additional sense:
Unrecovered read error
Dec 29 16:01:46 localhost kernel: [17245589.288000] end_request: I/O error,
dev sdc, sector 0
Dec 29 16:01:46 locahost kernel: [17245589.300000] sd 1:0:0:2: SCSI error:
return code = 0x8000002
Dec 29 16:01:46 localhost kernel: [17245589.300000] sdc: Current: sense key:
Medium Error
Dec 29 16:01:46 localhost kernel: [17245589.300000]     Additional sense:
Unrecovered read error
Dec 29 16:01:46 localhost kernel: [17245589.300000] end_request: I/O error,
dev sdc, sector 0

It belongs to a friend of mine whom used it for a while in a Nokia 6280
smartphone. She had a password set on it. after restoring the phone to
factory defaults, the card became useless - through the phone and any card
reader (under M$ too). When trying to format or change password in the
phone, it says the password is wrong, although it  is the right password for
sure (the date she got proposed by her boyfriend...)

Any thing I can do to help her?

Shame to waste it - it's a 2Gb card.

Is it possible to wipe the partition table to a fresh one?

She doesn't care for the data on it....

Thanks!

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