Mac Os X 10.11 El Capitan Bootable Usb For Windows Pc

Sep 30, 2015 - Rename the target USB drive for the OS X El Capitan boot disk to ElCapInstaller. Bootable, and you can use it to update as many Macs as you want to with OS X 10.11. But only have a Windows PC to make the usb drive.

Learn how to install on an external drive. Before upgrading to the latest Mac OS X, it is often useful to install Mac OS X on an external hard drive for testing. Especially, if you want to get a very first view on a Mac OS X 10.11 developer preview or public beta without replacing the final release version of the operating system. The following step-by-step tutorial works in the same way for installing (final release versions, developer previews, public beta) on an external volume. Update: Installing macOS 10.13 High Sierra or macOS 10.12 Sierra is working in the same way.

How to install OS X 10.11 El Capitan on external drive 1. Hard Ware Requirements The installation of Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan on an external hard drive works on a SD Card, USB flash drive, USB drive or any other external hard drive connected via USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire or Thunderbolt. However, the best choice is an external drive connected via USB 3.0 (up to 5 Gb/sec), Thunderbolt (up to 10 Gb/s) or Thunderbolt 2 (up to 20 Gb/sec) due to transfer speed reasons. With USB 2.0 the speed (up t0 0.25 Gb/sec) is significantly slower, the experience on USB 1.0 is unacceptable. For details about the high-speed I/O performance see. Although the OS X installers are much smaller (approx.

5 GB), Apple states in the support document ‘‘ that “ the storage device must have at least 13 GB available (after formatting) to install OS X Lion or later and a Recovery partition“. Hardware used: • G-Technology, 1TB, Portasble USB 3.0 Drive, 7200 RPM (transfer rates up to 136MB/sec) External Drive (0G02874). Note: 5400 RPM version got transfer rates up to 100MB/sec. • MacBook Pro 13” Retina, Late 2013, processor 2,6 GHz Intel Core i5, memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, graphics Intel Iris 1536 MB 2. Formatting an External Volume / Hard Drive. Installing OS X 10.11 El Capitan on external drive_04_downloading OS X installer • Open ‘ Mac App Store‘ and click ‘ Purchases‘.

• Supposing you previously purchased any Mac OS X or got an, you will see ‘ OS X El Capitan‘ (or ‘ OS X Lion‘, ‘ OS X Mountain Lion‘ and/or ‘ OS X Yosemite‘). Developers will additionally see the Developer Preview, e.g. ‘ OS X 10.10 Developer Preview‘. • Click on ‘ Download‘ to download the OS X installer you want to get. • If that does not work, search via Spotlight for the OS X installer on your Mac, as it may already have been downloaded. Installing OS X 10.11 El Capitan on external drive_09_restart • Then, your Mac will then count down from 30 seconds before restarting. Click on ‘ Restart‘ to accelerate the process.

Your Mac will restart and finish the installation process. Os for mac after high sierra. Note: After finishing the installation, your Mac will reboot into the version of OS X that you installed to the external volume! Choosing the hard drive for rebooting By default, your Mac will now always reboot into the version of OS X that you installed on the external drive. But you can choose the reboot drive in the System Preferences.

Installing OS X 10.11 El Capitan on external drive_12_Select Startup disk during rebooting An alternate option during restarting your Mac is the following: • When your Mac restarts, listen out for the startup chime. • Immediately after the chime sounds, press and hold down the ‘ Option‘ key (sometimes marked ‘ Alt‘).

• After a short time, you will see all bootable startup disks on your Mac (internal and external ones, if connected). Use the left and right arrow keys to navigate to the external drive and press ‘ Enter‘. 7. Summary Installation of a Mac OS X or macOS operating system (Lion, Mountain Lion, Yosemite, El Capitan, macOS Sierra, macOS High Sierra) on an external hard drive is an excellent option the test an operating system.

Due to performance reasons, you should use USB 3.0 external hard drives at least. After I installed the first version of El Capitan (public beta), the updates do not auto-install from external startup. The external starts up fine but installing updates fails miserably. I think it’s because the drive, for some unknown reason, reverts to the internal after the update finishes. I am SURE that the System Prefs are checked to reboot to the external, however the automatic restarts only partially redirect the update somehow. It crashes badly (kernel crash).