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OWC Mercury On-The-Go USB

Owner’s Manual

To disconnect or unhook your OWC Mercury hard drive, follow 

these important steps to properly dismount your drive.

 

Windows Systems (all versions):

 If you wish to disconnect your OWC 

Mercury drive without shutting down your computer, you need to stop 

the device with the “Unplug or Eject Hardware” icon, located on the right 

side of the system tray. Your drive is now safe to power off and unhook.

Macintosh Systems (all versions):

 If you wish to disconnect your 

OWC Mercury drive without shutting down your computer, simply drag 

the OWC Mercury drive icon to the trash can on the desktop (or, in the 

dock using Mac OS X). Your drive is now safe to power off and unhook.

Share your Mac formatted drive with your PC using MacDrive 

(optional purchase)

After installing MacDrive, your HFS+ Macintosh volume will mount as if 

the drive were formatted in a native Windows format. MacDrive allows 

you to use your OWC Mercury hard drive on either platform without 

having to reformat or re-initialize the volume. We highly recommend this 

software for anyone that is sharing data in a cross platform environment.

Reformatting your OWC Mercury Hard Drive

 

To reformat or re-initialize your OWC Mercury hard drive, visit our tech 

center for directions using the OS you wish to format the drive with.

 

http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=data_fwhdd.html

Notes for use with older Macintosh systems

If you are using an older Macintosh system, or using a PCI USB 2.0 card 

to interface with the OWC Mercury USB drive, we recommend using the 

included Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools to tune the drive for optimum 

performance. Transfer errors or corruption can be avoided by using this 

software. This is especially recommended if you are NOT using Mac OS X. 

You may also need to purchase the optional power adapter.

Copyright ®2006  Other World Computing All Rights Reserved.                                Other World Computing’s 1 year Limited Warranty is not transferrable and subject to limitations.

EMC Retrospect Express

To install and use the included EMC Retrospect Express backup software, 

please insert the CD and follow the included installation and operation 

instructions on the CD.

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