Hit the Erase button and wait for the complete formatting of the USB.ĥ. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in the box and leave 'Untitled' as the standard name.Ĥ.
Choose the USB drive from the left sidebar and click on the Erase tab.ģ. After connecting the USB drive to your computer, open Applications and launch Disk Utility.Ģ.
Using Disk Utility, make the USB flash drive bootable:ġ. Take a USB flash memory with 8GB or more, and make it bootable. This can be done using any third-party software or the proprietary Time Machine app.Ĥ. Use an external hard drive to back up all important user data, as well as personal settings. The standard location for downloads is the Applications folder.ģ. Using the Mac App Store, users have to download OS X 10.11 El Capitan. OS X El Capitan is supported on devices that already have the Yosemite OS: iMac (mid 2007 or newer), MacBook (late 2008 Aluminium or early 2009 or newer), MacBook Pro (mid or late 2007 or newer), MacBook Air (late 2008 or newer), Mac mini (early 2009 or newer), Mac Pro (early 2008 or newer), and Xserve (early 2009).Ģ. Here's how to do it using the simple and efficient USB flash method.ġ.
