SD Card Slot Disappears After Sleep (Gone Until Reboot)

We have different vendor ID's too.

hm okay. Thank you for your support Loner T. After contacting some other people with the same hardware and same problems within a clean windows 8.1 installation I still believe it is a driver related issue and will contact apple support. Or maybe someone else of Apple will read this thread... :-)

The Card Reader stops with Windows Error Code 43 at times (Unknown USB Device (Link in Compliance Mode)). I can disable the device, re-enable it and it works properly after that. I will post some screen shots next time it happens. You may want to check under Device Manager -> Universal Serial Bus Controllers section and check if you have an entry with a yellow triangle and exclamation mark when this happens.

Ok, but that looks like a driver bug too: The card reader should not stop working... It might be ok for you to restart the device. But for me it is not an appropriate behaviour of a storage/disk device which i want to be reliable.

In addition your workaround doesn't help me: The device disappears in my device manager/error code 45. So I am not able to re-enable it in the way you suggested.

Since we not heading towards a solution I think we should stop here. Thank you for your help!

That's great!!! Thank you for submitting the bug.

I am also a Windows user on the MacBook Pro and this issue is really annoying, hope they solve it anytime soon. I think that the issue is related to the USB hub where everything is connected, because I have also put the computer to sleep with a USB Hard Drive and after wakeup it didn't recognise it either.

I have tried this but it does not work for me either. My conversation will Apple technical support has been absolutely useless. They claim that this is a Windows issue not an Apple driver issue. Obviously Microsoft/Windows technical support states that they don't support windows on a MacBook. I have reached a point now that the SD drive does not show up even when the system is rebooted or cold started. Drive works fine on OS X side. Hopefully Apple will address this soon.

I have checked the event viewer and there is nothing. If you go to the device manager (devmgmt.msc) you can check that windows detect a few USB hubs and the SD card reader as being "Disconnected from the system". I have tried to uninstall Apple Driver and install the Microsoft Generic one to no avail

Well, to my mind it is Apple who should at least take some action in this case. I reckon a somewhat big part of their sales is based on compatibility with Windows, in my case I bought it solely because of its supposed "compatibility" as I had no interest whatsoever on OS X. To my mind, having the SD card disconnecting, together with an issue that we had with the efi and windows and the trackpad's lack of functionality is not what I would call "total compatibility".

The EFI issue was solved, the trackpad is easily solvable by using trackpad++ or by configuring the Apple driver with a bit of care, but what about the SD card? It does not happen on my Surface Pro 2, so don't say "Windows' to blame" because it is obvious that it does not always happen, and the only customisation made to the os is apple drivers.

This may temporarily provide some relief. Get VirtualBox (it is free). Import Bootcamp as a VM. Connect the SD Card to the host OS which is OS X and the card works properly in it. This will allow the VM to see the device as long as the host can see it. You can also allow device passthrough to the Guest (Windows) from the Host (OS X).

I'm doing the same with parallels. With parallels you actually can boot from the bootcamp partition so you can choose if you want to use OS X with windows as a virtual machine or you want to boot into windows, both of them being the exact same installation of windows with the same data and programs. Do you know if you can do this in VirtualBox?

Apart from that, you're right in that this is a "workaround" but you don't get the full performance of the machine on Windows. Sure it works, and it is absolutely right to do it, but I hope Apple comes up with a solution soon 🙂

VirtualBox will import the Bootcamp partition as a VM, but booting is via OSX. It allows Device Passthrough from host to guest.

Parallels emulates BIOS when used as a VM.

All VM Engines have BIOS emulation.

I have given up on Apple providing a solution on this issue. I have tried talking to technical support numerous times. They have provided nothing but excuses or dropped the line after put on a hold to search for possible solutions.

Well, the SD card is the only media that can be permanently attached (e.g. a Nifty Minidrive). Even though Apple and MS are rivals, that makes no excuse for Apple disregarding an annoying and serious issue with the software they provide. I suppose I am not the only one who uses the MBP for Windows. So I expect them to give a solution...

I have exactly the same problem and it's getting really annoying. I am not spending almost 3000 Dollar to deal with this kind of crap. Apple need to fix this asap or it will start to go viral...

PS: This thread started 2013, it is 2015 now and still no solution? 😠

Guys,

I'm having the same issue on my lovable but irritating at times MacBook Pro Retina 15" mid 2014 running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit!

I have no solution to offer other than to rant off at Apple for not supporting us!

I was sold on the MacBook Pro when I was looking for a new powerful laptop with a beautiful screen but couldn't find one on the PC side. I kept hovering over to the Mac isle at the electronic store and I finally went for it! In this day and age, why can't we have the best of both worlds? I don't get why manufacturers won't get off their a**es and develope an awesome laptop like Samsung has with the smart-phone industry!

After having trouble with the bluetooth, touch-pad device, and now the SD Card, let alone the proprietary SSD drive, I'm starting to realize that maybe Apple doesn't want my business because I chose Windows over iOS, which is insane! After all, isn't Apple all about the bottom line? If there is enough of us Windows on Mac users who complain, won't they listen?

Unless I can a resolution to this soon, I'll probably be selling my MacBook Pro and going back to a PC Laptop and never buying an Apple product again! It's your call, Apple!