Wipe Media Card Clean

To wipe the media card clean:
Options, Memory, and when memory screen comes up hit blackberry menu key.  There is an option to Format the media card.  That will wipe music, pictures, etc. stored there clean.
Now, back in the box...  see ya' all later, not sure what I am coming back from the Verizon store with!

alicebinns123 wrote:
im trying to format my memory/media card because i have transfered it from my old phone (blackberry curve 8520) to my new phone (blackberry bold 9900) but whenever i try and format it it says it has failed. so i took it to carephone warehouse today and they told me to plug it into my laptop and delete everything, but when ive deleted everything and then unplugged my phone from the laptop everything just restores, so the formating still wont work. can you help me?
Duplicate:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Bold/help-me-format-my-memory-card/m-p/2025963#nob...
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