Welcome to the forum. Are you sure the card is formatted? You should be able to format it on the phone. If the phone can't find it at all, try to remove and reinstall it. If that fails, can you read the card in a computer? If so your phone may just not like that brand or that particular card. That happens pretty frequently.
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