PC wants to format already formatted SDCard...what gives?

I woke up this morning to an SDcard error. I reformatted the card on the droid...

-I can see the directory of the SDcard in Astro
-When plugged into the usb on my laptop (xp) the drive shows up
-I have the options to mount and debug on the Droid
-I can choose mount with no issues
-when I select the drive on my PC; windows tells me I need to format it.
- so I say "What the heck!" and then I attempt to format in FAT32
- PC tells me that it cannot complete the operation

I was able to push files to the SDCard via Adb!...why does windows refuse to see that the card is already formatted! ARG!:mad:

is there any way to fix this without having to get a card reader?

hmmm...I rebooted the PC...now Droid soft boots when I plug it in. There is probably a simple fix for this. I just wonder what it is......

So I had to do a total data wipe and clear the cache to stop the rebooting.

I must have had something installed that was conflicting with the USB. Still can't get the PC to recognize the SD card as formatted....going to try a microSD reader