Reinstall El Capitan

1. Reinstall El Capitan On A Mac
2. Install El Capitan On Mac
3. Reinstall El Capitan A Required Download Is Missing

Reinstalling macOS is a piece of cake provided you have created a USB install disk for El Capitan to begin with. As you may have guessed, not many people take that extra step. As you may have guessed, not many people take that extra step. Reinstall El Capitan Without Erasing the Drive Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu.

1. Download El Capitan installation from the App store. It might complain that you already have it installed but download it anyway. It will be downloaded to /Applications and be named Install OS X El Capitan.app
2. Create a bootable image from the El Capitan installer on a USB stick larger than 6GB. In a terminal run:

where MyVolume is the name of your USB stick. Change this to match the name of your USB stick.

Reinstall El Capitan On A Mac

3. Physically install SSD into the target laptop.
4. Insert the El Capitan USB stick into the target laptop and power up. (This might take a while.)
5. When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name.
6. Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu.
7. Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD.
8. Follow the prompts until El Capitan is installed.

Install El Capitan On Mac

Here’s link to a video on how to physically install the SSD as well as run the software installation.

Reinstall El Capitan A Required Download Is Missing

Intrinsic value calculator excel. How to check usbasp firmware version. If you’d rather install Yosemite on the SSD then follow the How to Install Yosemite on a New SSD guide.