I formatted my 8GB SD HC card and comp can't read it now

To start off, I have http://canadacomputers.com/index.p [...] id=990.218
It was working fine, until I attempted to a install windows XP on it (asus eee). I used the windows xp installation "formatting" and failed to install XP on the flash...so anyways...now I plug the SD card in, and it detects it, but when i try to open it it says "please insert disc into E:"...do i need some sort of drivers for the SD card itself?
Please help!!!

i tried to install the OS on the flash card because the laptop that my gf has is the Asus EEE PC, which has 4GB of hard drive space...so if i install xp = next to no space left for updates and whatnot...so i attempted to install it on the flash drive and it failed...i ended up using Nlite to cut down the installation significantly and installed it onto the laptop's hard drive. but now when i try to access the flash drive, it gives me that error. i think it has to do with my formatting of the drive during windows setup. i'm not talking about booting a OS from a removable drive. when i'm in my computers in XP i can't access the flash drive files, but it is detected. thanks tho
pleaseeeee anyone know what i can do? do i need drivers for the card itself!? is there a way to format it again so that i can use it to store files? i tried the default windows "format disk" right click option...doens't work.

nooooooo, that's not the problem because it was working fine before i tried to install XP on the flash card.
so it's compatible.
it's just a tried to install windows XP on the flash card and it failed, and now the computer detects it as a removable device, but i can't access it. when i open it in my computer it says "insert disc into E:"
so compatibility is not an issue
do i need a special program to reformat it back to factory specs? or some kinda drivers?

something else I am seeing is that cards bigger than 2GB should be formatted in FAT32... but more often than not they recommend you do this in a camera that was designed to use the card.

So this is something else to try in the event the above doesn't work.

Try using a live Linux CD, such as Ubuntu. You can use its partition software to solve the problem, or you can download Gparted:

http://sourceforge.net/project/sho [...] _id=562326

right click my computer and go to Manage, then click on disk management and see if your Card is there, then right click on it to see if you can reformat it.