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Connect  USB  connector  [A]  of  the 
provided cable to the USB port of the PC

The product will be automatically recogn-
ised by the PC. 

*  Confirm the proper up/

down orientation of the 

connector when you 

connect it.

USB connector [A]

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2012 ELECOM Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 

Connect  USB  connector  [B]  of 
the  provided  cable  to  the  USB 
3.0 port of the product.

USB connector [B]

2

1

The card reader is automatically recognised 
and the connection procedure is complete.

 When using Windows®, an “installation 

complete” notification will appear in the 
taskbar.

3

About Windows

®

 drive letters

In Windows

®

, the memory cards slots are assigned in the following order. (the 

information in brackets assumes that the PC’s last assigned drive letter is E)

1st

Removable device (F:)

Memory card slot 

2

2nd

Removable device (G:)

Memory card slot 

4

3rd

Removable device (H:)

Memory card slot 

1

4th

Removable device (I:)

Memory card slot 

3

5th

Removable device (J:)

Memory card slot 

5

  The  order  of  drive  assignment  in  Windows

®

  7  may  differ,  depending  on 

your PC.

 

In  Windows

®

  7,  the  drive  icon  will  appear  once  a  memory  card  is  inserted 

into a slot.

About Macintosh

®

 drive icons

When using a Macintosh

®

, a different drive icon will appear depending on which 

memory slot you insert a card into.

Slot

1

 or 

2

 or 

5

*1

3

 or 

4

 or 

5

*2

Drive icon

*1 When a microSD or microSDHC memory card is inserted. 
*2 When a Memory Stick micro (M2) is inserted.

 • If multiple memory cards are inserted into card slots at the same time, the 

drives names will be named “Untitled”, “Untitled1”, “Untitled2”, etc. 

 

• The drive priority is “Untitled”, “Untitled1” and “Untitled2”. For example, 

if  memory  cards  are  inserted  in  the  order 

3

4

5

 

*

2

,  then 

2

  will 

becomes “Untitled”, 

3

 will become “Untitled1”, and 

5

 *

2

 will become 

“Untitled2”. If you remove cards 

3

 and 

4

, and then reinsert 

4

, then 

4

will be designated “untitled”.

Reading from and writing to a memory card using a PC

Connect to the PC

2

 Insert a memory card

3

Insert  a  memory  card  in  the 
appropriate slot with the correct 
orientation and alignment.

Refer to “How to insert memory cards 
into the corresponding card slots” (on 
the front side) for details.

A drive icon appears on the 
desktop and you can access the 
memory card.

  The inserted memory card can be accessed.

 If an Auto Play dialog box appears, select 

the action that you want Windows to perform.

*  If the card is empty, it is opened directly 

as a removable disk.

Windows

®

Macintosh

®

2

2

1

Activate the PC

1

  If the PC is started with this product connected, the product may not be recognized.

If this problem occurs, remove and reconnect the product. 

The power of PC is turned on.

1

Remove the memory card

4

Do not remove a memory card while the PC is writing to or reading from it.

Disconnect the card reader from the PC

5

Do not disconnect the card reader while the PC is writing to or reading from it.

Click  the 

,  ,  or 

 

icon  in  the  Taskbar  or  the 
Notification Area.

*  If the   icon is displayed in the 

Notification Area in Windows

®

 7, 

click it and then click the USB 
icon ( ) that appears.

*  If  removing  a  memory  card 

using Windows

®

 7, proceed to 

step  .

The “Safe to Remove Hardware” notifica-
tion is displayed.

Windows

• 

®

 7

Windows

®

 XP

Proceed to Step 

Windows Vista

• 

®

 7

Windows

®

 2000

Click 

, and proceed to Step 

Disconnect the card reader from the USB port.

Click the message that appears.

*  In Windows 7, if a memory card is in 

memory slots 1 to 4, the message 
“Eject removable media” is displayed 
for each slot.
For each message, perform steps 

2

 

and 

3

 and then proceed to step 

4

.

• If using a USB device or PC card besides this product, both names will be dis-

played. In this case, click the message that appears for this product (indicating a 
USB mass storage device or USB disc).

If a memory card is inserted into the memory card slot when using Windows

• 

®

 

7, click “Remove Mass Storage Device” (When connected with USB 2.0, click 
“USB3.0-CRW” (or “USB3.0-CRW” if connected via USB 2.0). 

2

3

Windows

®

1

Macintosh

®

4

  Remove all memory cards from the card reader slots.

  Always disconnect the card reader from the PC before turning off the PC.

Drag the drive icon to the Trash (Eject).

 The Trash icon(

) becomes an Eject (

) icon.

Check that the drive icon has disap-
peared and remove the memory card 
from the slot.

Macintosh

®

1

2

Open  “My  Computer”  (“Computer”  in 
Windows 7 and Windows Vista).

Right-click the removable disk that the 
memory card was assigned to, and on the 
context menu that appears, click [Eject].

Remove  the  memor y 
card from the slot.

Windows

®

1

2

3

  Only insert one media card at a time.

 

Media may not be recognised if multiple cards are inserted at the same time.

USB 3.0 Multi-memory Reader/Writer

MR3-A001 series

User’s manual

1st edition, January 10, 2012

This manual is copyright of ELECOM Co., Ltd.

• 

 

•  Unauthorised copying and/or reproducing of all or part of this manual is prohibited.

The specifications and appearance of this product may be changed without prior notice for 

• 

product improvement purposes.

ELECOM Co., Ltd. shall bear no responsibility for any and all affects resulting from the use 

• 

of this product regardless of the above reasons.

Export or service transaction permission under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 

• 

Control Law is required in order to export this product or parts of this product that constitute 

strategic materials or services.

The SD logo, SDHC logo, SDXC logo, microSD logo, and microSDHC logo are trademarks of 

• 

SD-3C, LLC.

MultiMediaCard is a trademark of Infineon Technologies AG.

• 

 

•  Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, and 

Memory Stick Micro are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

Microdrive is a registered trademark of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

• 

CompactFlash is a registered trademark of the US SanDisk Corporation.

• 

xD Picture Card is a trademark of Fujifilm Corporation.

• 

Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

• 

 

•  Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other 

countries.

 

•  Company names, product names, and other names in this manual are generally trademarks 

or registered trademarks.

If your PC does not support USB 3.0 in Windows

®

When performing step 2 of “2. Connect to the PC”, the following taskbar message or 
system notification will appear when you connect the USB connector to the PC USB port.

When using Windows

• 

®

 XP Service Pack 1 or earlier

"HI-SPEED USB Device Plugged into non-HI-SPEED USB Hub"

When using Windows Vista

• 

®

 or Windows

®

 XP Service Pack 2 or above

"This Device Can Perform Faster"

This is a message informing you that even though this product is a USB 3.0 
device, the port that it is connected to does not support USB 3.0. In this case, 
this product will operate at USB 2.0 speed.

When using this product with Windows

®

 2000

Windows

®

 2000 Service Pack 4 or above is required to use this product. Perform 

the following steps to confirm your version. If using Service Pack 3 or earlier, use 
Windows Update to update it to the latest version of Windows

®

 2000. For informa-

tion on performing the update, refer to your PC manual or consult the manufacturer 
of your PC. 

1. Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop, and then click “Properties” 

from the menu.

The system properties window is displayed. 

2. Confirm your version of Windows

®

 2000.

If the PC does not recognise the card reader

If the PC does not recognise the card reader, disconnect it from the PC and try connecting 
it again. 

 In Windows

®

 7, even if this product is recognised, the drive will not be dis-

played until a memory card has been inserted. 

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