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. Disk Management in Windows - Microsoft Support Disk Management in Windows helps you perform advanced storage tasks like initializing a new drive and ex…

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…

Thank you Dave I will try the utility

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Second SD card made unreadable by second pan V3 camera

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