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  • Page 1 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Assembly Manual & User Guide...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1.3.2 Power Options for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Quad interface model 1.3.3 Power Options for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini USB 3.0 & eSATA 6.0 Gb/s interface model 1.3.4 Powering on the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini 1.3.5 LED Indicator...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    •Any 2.5” SATA 9.5mm or 12.5mm hard drive •Any 2.5” SATA Solid State Drive (SSD) 1.2 Package Contents Item ______ ➀ OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini ➀ ➁ ➂ ➁ Flexible eSATA cable ➂ USB 3.0 (A to Micro-B) cable ➃...
  • Page 4 See section 1.5 for more details. ➁ On/Off Switch - Turn the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini on and off here. ➂ eSATA Port - Use with your eSATA interface for high speed connection.

  • Page 5: Power Options For The Owc Mercury Elite Pro Mini Usb 3.0 & Esata

    1.3.5 LED Indicator The OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini has a single blue LED at the front of the hard drive enclosure. It will illuminate blue when powered on, and flash...

  • Page 6: Assembly & Installation Instructions

    OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 2 - Assembly & Installation Instructions 2 ASSEMBLY & INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS This guide will get you up and running quickly, demonstrating how to install your own 2.5” hard drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini enclosure. Your computer is a static-sensitive device.

  • Page 7: Hard Drive Assembly & Installation

    OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 2 - Assembly & Installation Instructions 2.1 Hard Drive Assembly & Installation ➀ Use a Phillips P0 screwdriver to remove the 2 screws holding the rear backplane cover in place. ➁ Once the screws are...
  • Page 8 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 2 - Assembly & Installation Instructions ➂ From the rear of the enclo- sure, press inwards on the rear ports to slide the inner chassis out towards the front of the enclosure. ➙ Once you have opened the enclosure.
  • Page 9 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 2 - Assembly & Installation Instructions ➄ Place your drive mechanism into the chassis, lining up the connector, and slide the drive towards the ports to firmly affix the drive into the SATA connector.
  • Page 10 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 2 - Assembly & Installation Instructions ➆ Using the Phillips P0 screwdriver and the included screws from the plastic bag, attach the drive mechanism to the enclo- sure through the rubber grommets. ➇ ➈...

  • Page 11: Formatting

    Click on the “Initialize” button. (If this does not appear, open Disk Utility located in /Applications/Utilities) ➁ Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would be the 320.07 GB OWC device. Click on the picture of the drive icon next to the text.
  • Page 12 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting ➂ Once you’ve selected the OWC device, you will notice the above change in the Disk Utility application. Click on the “Erase” tab in this picture. ➃ You then need to name the volume that you want to format, and erase it.
  • Page 13 Click the erase button to confirm you wish to erase the disk. ➅ After a few moments, the erase command will complete and the OWC Mer- cury Elite Pro mini volume will mount on your desktop. You can quit Disk...
  • Page 14 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting 3.2 Removing the GUID Partition Scheme Only for XP, 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT, Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the next section) If you are not installing a brand-new hard drive into your enclosure, it may have a GUID drive partition already installed on it, especially if it was originally used with a Macintosh.
  • Page 15 Instructions for other operating systems can be found at http://www.macsales.com/format. IMPORTANT NOTE: This procedure will erase all data on your hard disk drives in the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini. Back up any impor- tant data before proceeding! ① With the drive connected to the com- puter and powered on, right click on the “My...
  • Page 16 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting ④ Your drive will appear similar to how Disk 1 does below. Notice that the space on the lower right reads as “Unallocated.” Right click in this space and choose “New Partition.”...
  • Page 17 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting ⑧ If you like, you can specify the drive letter designation for your new drive. Otherwise, one will automatically be assigned. Click “Next. ” ⑨ Before you can use the drive, it must be formatted.
  • Page 18 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting ⑪ Once you have finished with the formatting wizard, you will see that your new drive (represented as “Disk E” in this case) will display a message of “Formatting. ” This...
  • Page 19 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting ⑬ At this point, you may close the Computer Management win- dow. Your drive is ready to use and can be found in “My Computer. ” Using your new Storage Solution on both Macs and PCs? MacDrive™...

  • Page 20: Troubleshooting & Tips

    If these suggestions do not work, try the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini on a different computer, if available to you. If the blue power light is not coming on at the front of the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini, try a different interface or a dedicated power adapter.

  • Page 21: Appendix

    OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini, and a second copy on either your internal hard drive or another storage medium, such as an optical backup, or on a second external hard drive.

  • Page 22: Technical Support

    OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 6 - Technical Support 6 TECHNICAL SUPPORT 6.1 Before Contacting Technical Support •Read this manual and review Chapter 4: Troubleshooting & Tips. •Try to confirm the problem is with the hard drive. If you have a second computer, move the enclosure to that system and verify that the solution does not function with that machine.
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  • Page 24 Copyrights: Copyright © 2009-12 Other World Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Other World Computing. Changes: The material in this document is for information only and subject to change without notice.

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