OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Drive Owner's Manual

To disconnect or unhook your OWC Mercury hard drive, follow these important steps
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
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
To install and use the included backup software for Mac or
PC, please insert the software CD and follow the included
installation and operation instructions on the CD. Also, all
OWC Mercury Storage Solutions work perfectly with Time
Machine, a feature of Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard".
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 card to interface with the
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 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.
Warranty Service
All OWC Mercury Elite-AL solutions include a 2-Year OWC Storage Solution Warranty,
behalf that at the expiration of the OWC 2-Year Storage Solution Warranty, the drive
mechanism within the enclosure will be covered for an additional 1 to 3 years by the
mechanism manufacturer. Please note, opening the enclosure prior to the expiration
of the 2-Year OWC Storage Solution Warranty will void the warranty. Thank you for
selecting Other World Computing as your technology solutions source, we hope you
enjoy your product.
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