Download the El Capitan installer and Diskmaker X. Insert an 8GB (or larger) flash drive. If you have any other data on that flash drive, back it up now, because the installer will delete. El Capitan explained. Apple has finally released its new operating system for Macs, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which is a free download to all Mac users. Download El Capitan.DMG from here. Download DiskMaker X. To do in Windows, we already shared a very specific instruction from here: Make Bootable Installation USB from Mac OS X.DMG on Windows PC. At for Mac users, there will be 2 doable methods. METHOD 1: Using DiskMaker X. Run, DiskMaker X, then.choose El Capitan (10.11). DiskMaker X tool is Wizard like tool that allows you create macOS installation disk. Download DiskMaker X to your Mac and copy it to Applications folder. Apple officially released OS X 10.11 El Capitan operating system in September 2015 as an update through Apple App Store. The Easy Way: DiskMaker X. DiskMaker X is a free program that does the hard work of creating the USB installer. They do take donations, so if it’s helpful to you, you might throw some money in. Very many thanks for a most helpful response which I have implemented, coupled with Eric Roots DiskMaker suggestion which I have used. I created a new partition on my MacBook and, having restarted and opened into that new partition, I then installed the downloaded El Capitan and all seems to be well.
Hello everyone.
I tried DiskMaker but I had problems in creating the bootable disk.
I bought a new pen drive and downloaded El Capitan in my Applications folder; I downloaded DiskMaker X 5, too and ran it.
At the very beginning I had some problems when DiskMaker attempted to format pen drive before starting copying files into it (it refused to format, returning an error).
Then, I formatted drive by hand (using Disk Utility) using a FAT filesystem (I discovered that DiskMaker not even starts formatting pen drive when it is initialised with a Mac OS X Journaled filesystem).
Thus, DiskMaker started and finished formatting pen drive; later on, the copying of files begun but I noticed soon it was taking too much time (it seems it should take at the most 30 minutes); in fact, after almost 45 minutes, a time out error (regarding a certain AppleEvent) is returned and the process of copying seems to be aborted. There are some folders on pen drive but I'm sure enough not all files have been correctly copied. Moreover, folders have a pale colour, as it happens for hidden files when they are shown in finder (is it normal?).
Is there a solution to this problem?
Is there an alternative way (for instance, by shell) to obtain a bootable disk (supposing error derives from DiskMaker)?
Thanks for support.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Posted on Jul 25, 2016 2:05 AM
Making the installer drive. Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive, and rename the drive Untitled. (The Terminal commands I provide here assume that. Make sure the El Capitan installer (or at least a copy of it), called Install OS X El Capitan.app, is in its default. Apr 03, 2016 In the following instruction, we show specifically how to make a Mac OS X bootable installation USB from El Capitan.DMG, Yosemite.DMG, Maverick.DMG or any OS X older versions on Windows PC. This is cool for Windows users who want to install Mac OS X on their PC, but useful for Mac users when their Mac is not working and needs to be re-installed.
In the range of this writing, we will show you how to make an USB installer for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan using 2 different methods: DiskMaker X and Terminal.
You might want to look at the instruction to download and create USB installer for Mac OS X (Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion) in our another topic.
Preparation
You need to prepare following necessary tools and utilities:
- An USB 8GB or bigger.
- OS X El Capitan installer application must be on the Mac and in the /Applications/ folder. Mac OS X 10.11 can be downloaded from Apple Store. You may want to take a look on our another topic – Download Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.DMG – InstallESD.DMG.
- Download DiskMaker X here.
Solution 1: Make OS X El Capitan USB installer via DiskMaker X
Step 1: Run DiskMaker X,choose El Capitan when you are asked which version of OS X you want to make a boot disk.
Step 2: Choose Select an Install file…
Step 3: Locate and selet El Capitan installer in Applications/
Step 4: Click An 8GB USB thumb drive
Step 5: Select the right USB then click on Choose this disk.
Step 6: Click on Erase button then create the disk
Step 7: Choose Continue and fill the administrator password when you are asked.
Step 8: Wait until the process is finished.
You now have an OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer in a bootable USB.
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Solution 2: Create OS X El Capitan installer in a bootable USB installer using Terminal
You need to follow exactly step by step in details.
Step 1: Format and make USB bootable
1. Plug USB into Macbook and run Disk Utility > Select the USB drive in the left side > Click on Erase > Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format > Apply.
2. Go to Partition tab > Select 1 Partition at Partition Layout.
3. Change the name to ElCapInstaller from Untitled > Click on Option.
5. Choose GUID Partition Table and click OK.
6. Click on Apply to format USB > End the Disk Utility when the process is completed.
Step 2: Using Terminal command line
- Launch Terminal (Applications/Utilities). Copy and Paste the following code (pay attention on ElCapInstaller, the name of USB) and Enter.
sudo /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/ElCapInstaller –applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app –nointeraction
- Type the administrator password, and then it will be finished you see the “Done”.
With having an bootable USB which contains OS X El Capitan installer, you could easily to install OS X 10.11 on your Mac device by pressing and holding Option (Alt) key when booting.
In the following instruction, we show specifically how to make a Mac OS X bootable installation USB from El Capitan.DMG, Yosemite.DMG, Maverick.DMG or any OS X older versions on Windows PC.
This is cool for Windows users who want to install Mac OS X on their PC, but useful for Mac users when their Mac is not working and needs to be re-installed new and fresh Mac Operating System.
Basically, you need two things: A MacOS X.DMG (or.ISO) and TransMac software.
- At for Bootable MacOS images, you can download any versions from our existing shares here: https://applehint.com/t/download-all-macos-x-10-4-10-14-original/376
- TransMac v11 full version:
Acute Systems TransMac v11.zip (download) 3.90 MB Please leave a comment if the download link does not work. Otherwise, you can download the trial version of TransMac here.
How to create Mac OS X bootable USB on Windows?
Download El Capitan Installer
- You need to prepare an USB (8Gb or bigger).
- Run TransMac by Run as administrator
- Right-mouse the USB drive, choose Restore with Disk Image
- From the warning dialog box, just click on Yes
- Browse for the DMG file, then Click on OK button
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- The whole process then takes a few minutes to finish
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Cheers!