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First I trimmed down the card so it can fit in the RS-MMC slot. It took me 20min, and it wasn't very bad as soon as I figured out the internal structure. I taped the USB portion and some contact points exposed, stuck the card in my 770, rebooted the machine (the booting procedure somehow skips the MMC cover check). The card was recognized and I can format and put swap on it. Great!
Then, I started to cut the USB portion. I was very conservative and tried my best to cut as far from the SD portion of the circuit as possible. But when I almost finished cutting, a thought suddenly poped in: what if the USB portion of the circuit somehow is also involved in accessing the card? Well, it is already passed the point of no turning back...
Finally, after carefully cleared up the damaged part of the board, I tried the card again with finger crossed. But, there was no luck, the card is dead.... >_< ... I also tried with an external SD card reader, the activity LED blinks regularly (so maybe the card isn't completely killed), but the card wasn't recognized...
Anyway, for $10, I got a keychain SD card holder... better than nothing
So, the lesson for other DIYers: don't repeat what I did... :P