
If you want to erase the drive on a Mac before installing El Capitan, or start over at any time, you can use a dedicated installer drive to boot that Mac, erase its drive, and then install the OS (and subsequently restore whatever data you need from your backups). If you need to install El Capitan on multiple Macs, using a bootable installer drive is faster and more convenient than downloading or copying the entire installer to each computer. Though it’s true that some Macs still running Snow.īecause of this, I recommend creating your own bootable El Capitan (OS X 10.11) installer drive on an external hard drive or USB thumb drive. The only real drawback to createinstallmedia is that it doesn’t work under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard-it requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later. In other words, you no longer have the same safety net or convenience. But to install or reinstall a recent version of OS X, you must either download a non-bootable installer from the Mac App Store or (via OS X’s invisible, bootable recovery partition) download 6GB of installer data from Apple’s servers during the installation process. When OS X shipped on a DVD a good number of years ago, you always had the convenience of a bootable installer-an OS X installer that could be used to boot your Mac if its own drive was having problems. Using this software utility a user can easily make bootable media devices within a few clicks. *DiskMaker X is one of the best bootable USB creation tools for macOS users. This marks the first time in a while that the release of OS X and iOS (iOS 9) have appeared almost simultaneously – allowing for more synergy between the platforms.
DISKMAKER X TUTORIAL MAC OS X
El Capitan, or Mac OS X 10.11, is the latest update of Apple’s operating system for Mac. *Softonic review Yosemite just got bigger. Though it’s true that some Macs still running Snow. *The only real drawback to createinstallmedia is that it doesn’t work under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard-it requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later.

It will say it found the OS X installer in the “/Applications” folder. Select the “El Capitan (10.11)” option when asked what type of installer you plan to make. Or by pressing ⌘ Cmd and the space bar key on the keyboard and typing DiskMaker X.
DISKMAKER X TUTORIAL FOR MAC OS X
As you can see in the screenshot below, DiskMaker X 6 allows the creation of bootable disks for Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X El Capitan, and of course macOS Sierra. Make sure that your drive is attached to your Mac and visible from the Finder, then launch DiskMaker X 6. An El Capitan-compatible version of DiskMaker X is. Because of this, I recommend creating your own bootable El Capitan (OS X 10.11) installer drive on an external hard drive or USB thumb drive.
