SD CARD SLOT NOT SHOWING ON "safe to remove hardware" list ***NEWBIE**

i have purchased my very first imac and i have installed windows 7 through bootcamp. the first problem i have encountered is that when i insert a sd card or a back up drive via the usb port i do not get the "safe to remove hardware" icon i normally get on my pc. i am able to eject the sd card via the computer option when i right click the sd card i get the eject option but i do not get the option when i right click the portable hard drive. i have tried the "rundll" option wia "cmd" the "safe to remove hardware" box appears but the sd card and the portable hard drive do not appear. its as if the computer is not aware of anything in the slots.
when attaching multiple files in yahoo mail with a pc you just press the shift key does anyone know the equivilant for mac keyboard ?
thanks in adavance for your help

Hi,
odd...
If you open the Windows Explorer where are the SD-card and the USB-HD shown ?
Are they shown in the 'removable' section ?
Is thse USB-HD a 'Windows'-only HD or have you partitioned it to a Windows and a Mac OSX partition ?
Have you tried a different USB-port on your iMac for connecting the HD ?
What file system (FAT32 or NTFS) and what partition scheme (MBR or GPT) is used on the HD ?
And on the SD-card as well ?
As for the shift-key I don't that irregularity when using BootCamp Windows, but maybe that's because I still use WIndows XP with it.
Might be a very far reached guess, but who knows...: try the key-combo 'fn+shift-key' to enable/disable the scroll-lock... (very far.... I know).
Stefan

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