Summary: Dash cam can be a useful tool to record the unexpected that happens to your car. This article guides you on how you can recover your videos if your Dash cam SD card stops working. Also, try Stellar Photo Recovery software to recover any type of videos from your Dash Cam SD card.
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Imagine, you are driving and unfortunately confront with a crazy road accident where another car tries to wrongly overtake you and hits your car causing major damage. You contact the police and share the car description but the police ask you for proof. In such a situation a dash cam recording could be indisputable evidence for the police to take legal action. But what if you check the dash cam SD card and find the video missing?
Car dash cams or dashboard cameras or car recording cameras like Blackvue New DR650S-2CH and Thinkware f800 pro have become a necessity today with the spurt in the number of road accidents. The video recordings can be very helpful proof to resolve insurance fraud or prove your innocence in an accidental case. But losing such critical video footage can be a distressing experience with all the agony involved in such cases. But before you panic, get relaxed and know that lost videos from dash cams are recoverable.
This post guides you on the best way to recover lost videos from a car video camera. But before that let’s understand how dash cams work to record videos while driving.
A dash cam is basically a video camera mounted on the dashboard or windscreen of the car. It continuously records the video through the windscreen while you are driving. Usually, it works with the help of a car battery and automatically starts to record videos when the car ignition is turned on. Some dashboard cameras also have Parking Mode that allows them to record visuals when the car ignition is off. The parking mode is helpful in cases of vandalism and hit-and-run accidents when the vehicle is parked.
The video recordings are saved in the memory card. You can transfer the required video footage from the SD card to your computer. The recordings are generally of MP4, MOV, AVI, and M4V, file formats that are played using any compatible video player on your system.
Since the dash cam recordings are continuously saved in SD cards, deletion or corruption of SD cards is very common. There can be many reasons for your lost dash cam videos, some of them are listed below:
A trusted video recovery software such as Stellar Photo Recovery is the clear-cut solution to the lost video situation. You can also try out some manual fixes to the problem.
The best way to recover lost video footage from the dash cam of your car is through the professional multimedia recovery software – Stellar Photo Recovery. This quick video recovery method saves your precious time from trying other hit and trial manual methods. It efficiently recovers Videos from damaged, corrupt, inaccessible memory cards, mini SD Cards, micro SD cards, SDHC, and SDXC, used in dash cams.
The software supports all the video file formats including MOV, MP4, M4V, 3G2, 3GP, and F4V from all types of dashboard cameras, be it TaoTronics, Goluk T1 FHD Dash Cam, Garmin Dash Cam 35, Old Shark 1080p, KDLINKS DX2, Z-Edge Z3, Falcon F170, or Thinkware F800 Pro, Owl Dashcam, Tesla Dashcam, etc.
Download and run the software, following the simple on-screen instructions. Connect your SD card to the PC. Its intuitive interface allows easy recovery of lost videos from a dash cam in just 3 simple steps:
Stellar Photo Recovery is one of the safest applications that you can use without fearing the permanent loss of video footage captured by dash cams.
Manual fixes to recover lost dash cam videos usually work when your computer does not recognize the dash cam SD card. To overcome the issue you can reinstall the driver or assign a new drive letter to the storage media. If the SD card asks for formatting, perform chkdsk to fix any corruption in the card. Remember, these methods do not ensure complete recovery of the lost dash cam videos. It can be only obtained through Stellar Photo Recovery software.
To begin with, connect the SD card of your car dash cam to your computer. Reinstall the driver following the below steps:
Connect the SD card of your car dash cam to your computer.
You can apply this fix if errors like ‘SD card is damaged. ‘Try reformatting it’ appears on connecting the dash cam memory card to the computer. To do Chkdsk follow the below steps:
The Chkdsk checks and fixes the corrupt SD card. Now again open your SD card in the system to check if the videos are restored or not. Chkdsk only fixes the minor corruptions in the SD card. For severely corrupt videos, a comprehensive video repair solution is recommended to repair dash cam videos.
Severely corrupt video files fail to repair through any manual methods. For such videos, you require the professional Stellar Repair for Video that easily repairs damaged dash cam videos having header corruptions, sound issues, compression or slider movement problems, etc. The best part of the software is that it saves you from any kind of technical struggle, as all the work is done by its advanced algorithms.
Accidents are inevitable even from the best dash cams like Blackvue New DR650S-2CH and Thinkware f800 pro. It is better to manage your car dash cam videos sensibly than repent later. Always transfer the required videos to your computer, delete the ones not usable, and then reuse the SD card for further recordings. Still, if you happen to lose any of your important videos required for the insurance claim or accidental case with police, recover lost videos from the dash cam through trusted Stellar Photo Recovery.
Till then, follow safe driving!
Nishat Paiker is an expert technical writer and editor with over 8 years of experience. She has deep knowledge about data recovery and loves to explore new technology and DIY tools. Nishat has keen interest in photography. You will often find her giving photography tips and hacks.
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The CHKDSK didn’t fix the problem, can your software help me get back my footage?
Hi Hasan,
The CHKDSK command is used to fix the errors of the storage drive and it can bring back the footages which were hidden due to some error. But if your videos were lost completely or deleted mistakenly then Stellar Photo Recovery software could help recover all the videos in no time.
Some footage from my dash cam is missing, and I don’t want to take any chance to lose them. Will your software be able to find those missing footage without hampering the existing ones?
Hi Izikial, Yes. You can easily recover specific files after successful scanning of the drive/media. There will be no other consequences of existing media files, you can choose to preview and save the specific file from your storage.