SDXC Card Upgrade

My 64 gigabyte SDXC card in my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 NV-900V stopped reading.  I upgraded the card to a 128 gigabyte unit.  The tablet has doors that you use a "poke" tool through a hole to access it.  I thought it was a poke and lift tool, but I kept bending it.  Today, I got some safety pins and discovered that there was a spring loaded eject in there.  I kept the poker tool on my key chain because I once thought that nothing else was going to open it.