Youtube Bootable Usb For Mac El Capitan

Here’s how to make a bootable installer of El Capitan on a USB Thumbdrive. It is the quickest way but it uses the terminal so it is for advanced users.

If you want a way that is slightly longer but easier for beginners download and run which does the steps below for you automatically! How to make a bootable El Capitan Installer. • Download and keep a copy of the ‘Install OS X El Capitan’ App. (Download from App store but make a copy of it before you install it as the Apple Installer deletes it after you use it.) • Put it in your ‘Applications’ folder • Format your blank USB (8GB is a good size) as Apple OS X Extended (Journaled) using Disk Utility and call it ‘Untitled’ • Open Terminal and type in this: sudo /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app --nointeraction You will get a response like this: Erasing Disk: 0%. Copying installer files to disk. And after half an hour or so the USB drive will be a bootable OS X El Capitan Installer that you can use to install or upgrade OS X! For more info check out the Apple Support article here: If you have trouble with DiskMaker X is a way to do it using the built-in Disk Utility in OS X.

How to install El Capitan from a USB drive from your Mac desktop. To see how to create an El Capitan installer drive watch my other videos. There is no need to be connected to the internet, this is an offline install. Part 3 will show you how to install El Capitan by booting up from the USB boot drive and completing a fresh install of El Capitan on an erased hard drive. Free word for mac for students. It will take around 40 minutes to install: Insert the USB drive with the ElCapitan installer file into your apple Mac The disk will appear on your desktop You may get a message popping up about Time Machine, click Don’t Use Then double click on the USB Drive A finder window will open with the the El Capitan installer files, Double click it to install. Click on continue Agree to the terms and conditions And agree again And then click on install Type in your administrator password when prompted It will then prepare the files which will take around 10 minutes After it has done that you will need to restart your Apple Mac When you have restarted it will take about 40 minutes to install Once it has done that it will boot up to the log on screen Log in Choose what you want to do with your diagnostic and usage data, and click continue It will finish off installing And that’s it El Capitan is installed.

Download a macOS installer, such as macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra. To download macOS Mojave or High Sierra for this purpose, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. As usual, Apple no longer supply a bootable USB Flash Drive with latest OS X releases - including the new OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Using this tutorial you will be able to create your very own.