Formatting MicroSD card in Disk Utility-8GB card now showing as only 200MB!

Hi Guys
I want to give my sd card to a friend and so I tried to secure erase the data in disk utility and somehow managed to turn an 8gb card into a 200mb one while trying to format it to FAT format. This has happened to two 8gb cards from different manufacturers.
I tried to delete the partition and reformat the card to no avail. Even tried the solution here with no luck -
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11056512
I have extracted the log from disk utility when this happened (below) if that can give any clues
Thanks for the help!
2010-07-08 23:20:48 +0100: Mounting disk
2010-07-08 23:20:48 +0100: Erase complete.
2010-07-08 23:20:48 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:21:05 +0100: Preparing to zero disk : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:21:05 +0100: Passes : 0
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Secure Erase completed successfully in 24 minutes.
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Preparing to erase : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: 1 volume will be created
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Name : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Size : 8.07 GB
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Filesystem : MS-DOS (FAT)
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Unmounting disk
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Creating partition map
2010-07-08 23:45:16 +0100: Waiting for disks to reappear
2010-07-08 23:45:16 +0100: Formatting disk1s2 as MS-DOS (FAT) with name UNTITLED
2010-07-08 23:45:17 +0100: 512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk1s2: 15313672 sectors in 1914209 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf0 spt=32 hds=255 hid=0 bsec=15343616 bspf=14955 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
2010-07-08 23:45:17 +0100: Mounting disk
2010-07-08 23:45:18 +0100: Erase complete.
2010-07-08 23:45:18 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:51:47 +0100: Preparing to zero disk : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:51:47 +0100: Passes : 0
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Secure Erase skipped after 16 seconds.
24.5% complete.
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Preparing to erase : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: 1 volume will be created
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Name : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Size : 209.7 MB
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Filesystem : MS-DOS (FAT)
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Unmounting disk
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Creating partition map
2010-07-08 23:52:05 +0100: Waiting for disks to reappear
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: Formatting disk1s1 as MS-DOS (FAT) with name UNTITLED
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: newfs_msdos: /dev/rdisk1s1: Permission denied
512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk1s1: 407120 sectors in 50890 FAT16 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=8 res=1 nft=2 rde=512 mid=0xf0 spf=199 spt=32 hds=32 hid=0 bsec=407552
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: Mounting disk
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: Could not mount disk1s1 with name (null) after erase
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: Disk Erase failed with the error:
File system formatter failed
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: Erase complete.
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100: Erase complete.
2010-07-08 23:52:06 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:54:41 +0100: Verifying volume “NO NAME”
2010-07-08 23:54:41 +0100: Starting verification tool:
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100: ** /dev/disk1
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100: ** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100: ** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100: ** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100: 74 files, 203800 KiB free (25475 clusters)
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100: Repair tool completed:
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:54:42 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: Verify and Repair volume “NO NAME”
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: Starting repair tool:
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: ** /dev/disk1
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: ** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: ** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: ** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: 72 files, 203824 KiB free (25478 clusters)
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: Volume repair complete.2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100: Repair tool completed:
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:54:47 +0100:
2010-07-08 23:55:00 +0100: Preparing to erase : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:55:00 +0100: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2010-07-08 23:55:00 +0100: 1 volume will be created
2010-07-08 23:55:00 +0100: Name : “UNTITLED”
2010-07-08 23:55:00 +0100: Size : 209.7 MB
2010-07-08 23:55:00 +0100: Filesystem : MS-DOS (FAT)

Rednecs wrote:
I want to give my sd card to a friend and so I tried to secure erase the data in disk utility and somehow managed to turn an 8gb card into a 200mb one while trying to format it to FAT format.
2010-07-08 23:45:15 +0100: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
That's probably not the best partition scheme for a FAT volume format. In the Partition tab set "1 Partition", then click the "Options" button and select "Master Boot Record".

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