CF Card failure - a bit different

I came here yesterday with TWO bad 32GB cards.
to wit:
After several hours of painstaking trial and error e.g.: changing settings in my computer bios, three different card readers at different USB speeds, thread after thread of forums, and continually trying to do the same—> format in fat32, sometimes with Fat32 not even showing up in the choices, my Windows Disk Management open and looking for the card to even show up as a disk when I plugged it in AGAIN.

 I solved the problem, for BOTH of the cards.  I took a can of compressed air ‘Blow Off Duster’ and aimed it into the little tiny holes on the card, that slide into the reader. Done, did it. Recognized it, files in folders complete, I don’t know if they will take/hold 29GB of new photos yet, but my faith says I will try it.  (Now where did I put that old 16GB card that failed me? )
sigh.  k.i.s.s.