JPO
New Member
Hi. I'm pretty new to dash cams and completely new to formatting SD cards. I screwed up and I need help, please. Here's my story.
Today (May 3, 2024) I connected my RedTiger camera to my laptop and I looked for a recording from yesterday, May 2. To my surprise, only videos from April 27 to April 30 were on there. This was odd and disappointing. I was expecting to see files from today. Nobody had made any configuration changes to the camera since we bought it late last year.
I decided I would manually delete the videos I no longer needed (pretty much all of them), put the camera back in place in my car, and see if it started recording again. At the last minute I thought I should format it. By "it", I meant the SD card, but I had the whole camera connected via USB-C, not just the card in the SD slot.
The camera is supposed to start when the car starts, but it didn't. When I connected it back to the laptop, it turned on but also beeped loudly 5 times and then stopped. I can see the storage is not only empty, it also doesn't have the folders it used to (CardV main folder, then Video F and Video R subfolders, etc.)
I think I messed up the entire camera. Can I undo what I did? How?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Today (May 3, 2024) I connected my RedTiger camera to my laptop and I looked for a recording from yesterday, May 2. To my surprise, only videos from April 27 to April 30 were on there. This was odd and disappointing. I was expecting to see files from today. Nobody had made any configuration changes to the camera since we bought it late last year.
I decided I would manually delete the videos I no longer needed (pretty much all of them), put the camera back in place in my car, and see if it started recording again. At the last minute I thought I should format it. By "it", I meant the SD card, but I had the whole camera connected via USB-C, not just the card in the SD slot.
The camera is supposed to start when the car starts, but it didn't. When I connected it back to the laptop, it turned on but also beeped loudly 5 times and then stopped. I can see the storage is not only empty, it also doesn't have the folders it used to (CardV main folder, then Video F and Video R subfolders, etc.)
I think I messed up the entire camera. Can I undo what I did? How?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!