Os X El Capitan Cannot Be Installed On Macintosh Hd

Os X El Capitan Cannot Be Installed On Macintosh Hd

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Showing you how to install Mac OS X on a blank hard drive using nothing but Wi-Fi!Twitch: https://www.facebook.com/. Now quit Disk Utility and click reinstall OS X at the top and wait for it to finish and restart. This will put you on the OS X version that came from the factory. You can update to El Capitan after if you like. What you are seeing locked there in your second screenshot is the Recovery HD partition, and that is as it should be and not the problem.

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Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error:

Quit the OS X Mountain Lion installation by clicking the menu item Quit Install OS X. Click the Disk Utility item to open the disk manager. Click the Show all disks menu to list all hidden disks. Select the disk that you want to create the partition. Format the disk with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format on the right side erase. If you’re interested in creating a dual-boot environment on your Mac, check out these easy to follow tutorial that cover deploying Yosemite and El Capitan on a separate partition and USB flash drive: How to install OS X 10.10 Yosemite on a separate partition; How to install OS X 10.11 El Capitan on a separate partition. This update is recommended for all OS X El Capitan users. The OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 Update improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users. This update: Resolves an issue that may prevent settings from being saved in accounts with parental controls enabled.

OS X could not be installed on your computer

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

I checked Apple’s support Matrix (it is a very old macbook pro) at https://support.apple.com/kb/SP728?locale=en_GB and it was listed as supported.

After lots of Googling and investigation, I discovered that the date and time were not set to current, the macbook thought it was year 2000.

Os X El Capitan Cannot Be Installed On Macintosh Hd

You can easily reset the time and date by following the steps below:

Os X El Capitan Cannot Be Installed On Macintosh Hd Computer

  • Click Utilities on the menu bar
  • Select Terminal
  • Type date
  • Confirm the date is wrong
  • Type date 062112422016 (example: June 21st 12:42 2016)
  • Exit terminal
  • Click Restart

Once the Date and time are configured you will be able to install OS X.

Os X El Capitan Cannot Be Installed On Macintosh Hd

Easy fix, for a ridiculous error!