SD Card Formatting issues

joe384

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I noticed the Nextbase 212 Cam in my mums car was flashing up "Format SD Card" on startup.

I tried formatting from the dashcam but it didn't work.

So I have downloaded SD Formatter but that is refusing to format the card

Windows format is not working either.

Is this dead now? Anything else I can try?

I am quite suprised as the card is a good quality sandisk and the dashcam hardly gets any use
 
All cards will fail after time. Some last longer than others - you may have come up on the short end with yours.

Try testing the card using 'h2testw' but if SDFormatter isn't working it's likely dead - or at least reverted to 'read only' mode to protect the existing data on a failing card.

 
Weirdly I was able to delete the existing files, so there is no files on the card, but now windows reports 1GB free of 32GB, so I reckon it has marked almost all the blocks on the card bad and there is only 1GB left!
 
Sometimes you can try various programs and get a card working again but it will solidly die very soon thereafter.

Phil
 
Yeah thanks I think it's dead, all the normal tools are not working
 
Yeah thanks I think it's dead, all the normal tools are not working
If not totally dead it's well on the way. Be glad you discovered this before you needed critical videos and found out they weren't there.
 
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