Sounds like the SD is damaged and needs to be replaced.
If it is recognized as a D: drive then try DiskPart.
Go to Start/Search and type CMD, Right click the CMD results and Run As Administrator. In the command prompt type following commands pressing Enter after each bold command:
i) diskpart
ii) list disk
iii) select disk <disk number>
disk number = as listed in previous command, normally disk 1
iv) clean (this erases all data on the Disk, so be sure you choose the correct one)
now for verification of disk status and free space type
v) list disk
the status should be "online" and free space should be "disk size"
‘vi)exit
Now go to Start/Search and type diskmgmt.msc, right click the diskmgmt results and Run As Administrator. In the Elevated Disk Management window, in the lower pane. The D: drive should be listed as being Unallocated Space. Right click this and choose Create New Simple Volume, Format it NTFS.
If the Clean command fails, the SD card is un-usable.

 

Spunk, I tried doing what you said, but once I got to disk management, D: showed up as RAW, not unallocated space. And no option for Create New Simple Volume. Tried formatting, failed...guessing the card is unuseable.

btw, no problem with cleaning it

 

Run Diskpart again this time create a partition and Format it in Diskpart
ii) list disk
iii) select disk <disk number>
vi) create partition primary
vii) format fs=ntfs quick
now for verification of disk status and free space type
v) list disk
If it doesn't list the proper free space or it says it is Invalid then the card is bad.

 

In disk management do you have the option to initialize the disk?

 

spunk, once I get to Create Partition Primary, it won't do it....guessing its a bad card....oh well, memory cards r cheap
djaburg, nope...
also,just noticed in disk management, though it shows the card as being 31GB, If I click on the disc, it says that used space, free space, and capacity are all 0

 

Hi, if the card is not damaged you should be able to format it, diskpart has some advanced features, this fix was written some time ago for a problem similar to yours:-

1. Insert SD card
2. Run command prompt shell as Administrator (just in case the keyboard shortcut for “Run as Administrator” is Ctrl+Alt+Shift)
3. Type “diskpart” to run Microsoft DiskPart utility.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7600
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: VistaTest\Paul

4. List your disks by typing in “list disk” or for those who like it shorter “list dis”
DISKPART> lis dis
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
——– ————- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 75 GB 2 GB
Disk 2 Online 3814 MB 0 B
Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 4 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 5 Online 14 GB 0 B

5. Identify your SD Card (in my case it is Disk 5)

6. Select this drive to mark it for work by using “select disk 5” or “sel dis 5” command
DISKPART> sel dis 5
Disk 5 is now the selected disk.

7. Clean it (this will delete everything on your disk drive, so be careful) by using “clean” or “cle” command.
DISKPART> cle
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

8. Create primary partition – “create partition primary” or “cre par pri”
DISKPART> cre par pri
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

9. Select new partition – “select partition 1” or “sel par 1”
DISKPART> sel par 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

10. Mark it as Active partition – “active” or “act”
DISKPART> act
DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

11. Format – “format fs=ntfs quick” or “for fs=ntfs quick”
DISKPART> for fs=ntfs quick
100 percent completed
DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

12. And finally “assign” or “***” to mark it ready and create mount point
DISKPART> ***
DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.

13. Exit – “exit” or “exi” to return to command shell
DISKPART> exi
Leaving DiskPart…

Let us know how you get on.

 

good up untile Create Partition Primary

then I get
No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR disk partitioning format and the disk containss either 4 primary partitions, (no more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and o0ne extended partition, (only logical drives may be created).


then it's back on DISKPART>

 

And one more thing,

when i list disks, it shows Disk 0, which is the SSD/hard drive for the netbook, size 29GB
Disk 1, the SD card..size 30MB???(just noticed that...weird..its a 32GB card), and the USB stick size 58GB

now besides the SD card showing the wrong size, it also shows that ALL of them have 0B free....
hmmm