Michael Jenkin
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Hello,
A friend of mine has handed me a puzzle. He has a Navman MiVue 680 super HD which some very special footage on it.
You can view the footage on the devices display panel (There are hours of it) or even start a fresh recording.
Plug the unit into a PC via USB and a drive letter may/might not pop up and if it does, it's either empty or wants to be reformatted.
Plug into an SD reader and you get an error or sometimes a drive letter may/might not pop up and if it does, it's either empty or wants to be reformatted.
Pop it back into the GPS unit and everything can still be played back.
Change USB cable, change laptops, change SDcard readers, same issues.
It does appear the GPS/Dashcam is fine and maybe the issue is with the card but I am still trying to get my head around it as this card has the footage we need.
I did manage to use data recovery software (on one of the chances it popped up) and got some large 500 mb files back as MP4 but I can't play the files back.
Looking at the file headers, they look like valid Quicktime MOV files. I just can't seem to get them to play with my software (or VLC).
again, on the device the videos play fine. In the recovery, it has read errors for the first 2 % of the SDcard.
So either the navman can skip errors, it might not read/write the first bit of the SDcard or maybe a strange format ?
My recovery software did at one point suggest Fat 12 (Which is floppy disk format). I would suggest it is meant to be fat32.
I believe from the friend, he formatted the card with the Navman.
I an not suspecting format as the main issue, as I also get "disk not found" and sometimes it does not appear under My Computer at all.
all very odd.
so, if people can confirm, yes, the card needs to be Fat32.
what format the video is in and what I can playback with
any suggestions as to the problem or a work around.
I am about to ditch my windows system and try and recover with linux except I seem to have 29 Gb of valid MP4's that do not playback.
Very odd.
A friend of mine has handed me a puzzle. He has a Navman MiVue 680 super HD which some very special footage on it.
You can view the footage on the devices display panel (There are hours of it) or even start a fresh recording.
Plug the unit into a PC via USB and a drive letter may/might not pop up and if it does, it's either empty or wants to be reformatted.
Plug into an SD reader and you get an error or sometimes a drive letter may/might not pop up and if it does, it's either empty or wants to be reformatted.
Pop it back into the GPS unit and everything can still be played back.
Change USB cable, change laptops, change SDcard readers, same issues.
It does appear the GPS/Dashcam is fine and maybe the issue is with the card but I am still trying to get my head around it as this card has the footage we need.
I did manage to use data recovery software (on one of the chances it popped up) and got some large 500 mb files back as MP4 but I can't play the files back.
Looking at the file headers, they look like valid Quicktime MOV files. I just can't seem to get them to play with my software (or VLC).
again, on the device the videos play fine. In the recovery, it has read errors for the first 2 % of the SDcard.
So either the navman can skip errors, it might not read/write the first bit of the SDcard or maybe a strange format ?
My recovery software did at one point suggest Fat 12 (Which is floppy disk format). I would suggest it is meant to be fat32.
I believe from the friend, he formatted the card with the Navman.
I an not suspecting format as the main issue, as I also get "disk not found" and sometimes it does not appear under My Computer at all.
all very odd.
so, if people can confirm, yes, the card needs to be Fat32.
what format the video is in and what I can playback with
any suggestions as to the problem or a work around.
I am about to ditch my windows system and try and recover with linux except I seem to have 29 Gb of valid MP4's that do not playback.
Very odd.