# Wyze Cam V3 not recognizing SD card

**URL:** <https://forums.wyze.com/t/wyze-cam-v3-not-recognizing-sd-card/145923>\
**Category:** Cameras\
**Tags:** not-platform-specific\
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wyze-cam-v3-not-recognizing-sd-card/145923 "2020-12-03T14:17:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/brian/32/29425_2.png) [@Brian](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Brian)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wyze-cam-v3-not-recognizing-sd-card/145923/3 "2020-12-03T16:05:33Z")

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See this post by @dr.know, people have had lots of success.

> [@SD cards issues](https://forums.wyze.com/t/sd-cards-issues/144796/4):
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> Hi @rachelwojtylko31 and welcome to the community Forum! slightly_smiling_face I agree with all the above comments. You may have a bad cell on your new uSD cards. The format in the Wyze app will not check for errors or map out bad cells. It is a “Quick Format”. Quick format just marks the partition as “formatted” and destroys the journal that keeps tracks of the files and their locations on hard drive. Full format will clear files completely from the partition, rebuild the file syste…

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