This is my second Wyze pan V3 that made my SD card unrecognizable by my computer after trying to format it while in the camera. My subscription is up in March and I’m thinking of just tossing my 9 cameras and buying just one super high quality camera that doesn’t destroy SD cards.
Are you using continuous recording? What type of cards are you using? How long did the cards last? Some SD cards can deal with a lot more writes (especially continuous writes) than others.
Sandisk 32 gb and actually this is the newest and the 3rd one that two of my pan v3 s have destroyed. My computer won’t even recognize them and if I put them in my other Wyze cameras they don’t either.
Also, have you looked at the SD cards with a disk utility. In Windows you could try Disk Management or DiskPart from the Command Line.
I would delete all partitions then re-create them and then try to format.
I’m not using continuous recording
I’ve rarely used the internal format function, you can look at the partitions using the utliities that @StevenA mentions, or you can try formatting them using the utility from sdcard.org which basically restores them back to SD card specs and a fresh clean format if the cards aren’t totally dead.
I’ve had cams running continuous recording for over 2 years that have never needed a format, so if you’re finding you need to format the cards on a regular basis, I suspect something is wrong with the cards or the cams.
Keep in mind there are a lot of fake SD cards out there, particularly Sandisk. The first time you format them, they will die because the capacity reported by the fake card is not the actual capacity. So make sure you’re getting your cards from a reputable source, not 3rd party amazon sellers, ebay, etc.
Thank you Dave I will try the utility
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