So I have this 64 gb micro SD card in my tablet and my tablet recently decided to stop recognizing it. It asks if I want to format, and since none of the files on it are important to me I chose to do that, but it doesn't actually format. It just brings up the message that it's not recognized again, or says the card can now safely be ejected (wut?).

So I went and got a USB card reader to try to solve this on my PC because I know fuck all about Android, but I'm having similar trouble. If I try to format using windows, the drive also seems to be ejected. Using disk management to format the drive doesn't work. Using the clean function with diskpart doesn't work, and directs me to the event viewer which gives an error, "The IO operation at logical block address 0x0 for Disk 2 (PDO name: \Device\0000024a) failed due to a hardware error."

So I got this recovery software that is able to scan the files on the disk which all seem to be in "raw" format and it seems like I could recover them if I wanted, but I don't care about recovering them. I want to just format the card.

At this point I'm guessing it's a hardware failure and my only option is to recover the files if I want and then scrap the card. Is that right?

I guess I should just post this on Tom's Hardware or something, but maybe one of you know!