Install El Capitan On New Ssd
I am using Macbook Pro Mid 2012 13' with 128GB SSD. The latest installed version of OS X was El Capitan which crashed during a Sierra upgrade.
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Trying to install Mac OS X El Capitan on SSD. I am trying to install El Capitan on an ssd for another mac. I am using my girlfriends current MacBook Air 2017. Since I had so much trouble with a usb boot drive, I decided to install El Capitan directly onto the ssd (by using a usb to SATA adapter) then put it into the iMac.
- Once downloaded, I was prompted to install El Capitan, I clicked yes, and it installed. Note: For detailed instructions on installing OS X to a new drive, click HERE. In this example’s instructions, a newer Mac was used, and it would and did call “Home” for the latest available OS which was then downloaded and installed.
- Apple recently released its latest operating system for its Macintosh lineup of systems, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which, as all the recent previous versions of OS X have been, is free for all users to download and install. El Capitan offers many improvements and refinements to the OS X experience, such as better window management, enhanced.
- I downloaded El Capitan from the 'App Store' and then used 'DiskMaker X 5' to make a bootable usb. Restarted my laptop and booted from USB, and onto the El Capitan installation. From there I formatted the new SSD (MacOS Extended (Journaled) with a single GUID partition).
Internet recovery mode worked somehow to land me to install download and install a new OS but it's Mountain Lion, which came installed when I bought the Macbook few years back However, it's rejecting to install on current SSD drive as shown in pic.
I have another 320GB HDD, so is this the only way to reinstall? First I do a fresh install of Lion on the external HDD? What I should I do?
What is a step by step procedure as all I want to do is run OSX on SSD drive but keeping all my older data. I can not afford to wipe it.
However, I did back up some of its backup onto my PC. If I install Lion the HDD can I then download Sierra and create an install disk to update/fix/install corrupted OS X on SSD?
After I got my new MBP, I decided to sell my old 2010 MBP. I wanted to keep all my existing data on my old laptop, so I decided to swap out its SSD and to put in a brand new one.
The process of installing Yosemite on the new SSD was not as straightforward as I would have liked. I thought I’d blog about it to help anyone else who needed to do the same.
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Install El Capitan Dmg
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Basically I was trying to sell a 2010 MBP with a new SSD, with Yosemite installed but not configured.
- Download Yosemite 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 Yosemite.app
- Create a bootable image from the Yosemite 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.
- Physically install SSD into the target laptop.
- Insert the Yosemite USB stick into the target laptop and power up. (This might take a while.)
- When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name.
- Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu.
- Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD.
- Follow the prompts until Yosemite is installed.
Here’s link to a video on how to physically install the SSD as well as run the software installation.
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Make El Capitan Install Usb
If you’d rather install El Capitan on the SSD then follow the How to Install El Capitan on a New SSD guide.