SJCAM

[Peter Ball]

Hi, I bought the lady a SJCAM M20 for Xmas which, I think, went down well. Just a quick question from a non techy and somewhat of a numpty when it comes to these things. I got her a 32gb class10 Sandisk to use which I gather should be formatted before use.

Question, how do you format said card?

Thanks for any help.

 

[soundwave]

if you find the settings in the cam go in to that and find format, should be at the bottom somewhere click format and yes and thats it.

it will also wipe the card clean if anything is stored on it.

 

[LeighPing]

Put it in your pc. Open a folder that shows all your drives on the left side of it. C: D: etc. Right click the drive that is the sdcard and select format.

If it's in the cam, connect it to the pc via the usb cable and do the above, as it will still show as a drive.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

I'm pretty sure that you don't need to format it in the SJcam M20. I just put a new SD card in mine. I didn't format it, and it's recording OK. I think all formatting does is wipe any previous data, but if it's a new card, you don't need to.

 

[PatH]

Strictly speaking formatting a card installs a new file system, used to to be FAT16 for old tech but any card these days will be FAT32 and factory formatted. You'd only need to format it if you we're using something that doesn't read FAT32.

Great cameras the SJCAM, the SJ400 was so good as a GoPro clone at a quarter of the price that it's hard to find one now that isn't fake!

Where the GoPro scores though is in image stabilisation.