My SD card isn't being detected by my MacBook Pro

My SD card isn't being detected by my mid 2012 MacBook Pro. It's detected fine by my camera and my iPad (using the Camera Connection Kit), but not my computer. I've tried it in both OS X Mavericks and Windows 8.1 using my Boot Camp partition, but it's not being detected at all in either OS. This has worked before just fine.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be wrong and how I can resolve it?

I too facing the same problem after installing Mavericks. I tried opening iphoto first and then inserting SD card, that also doesnot detect. waiting for other solutions......thanks in advance

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