
I explained the problem, they gave me a telephone appointment for the next day, and never called back. Once you have the drive, hold down the option key while restarting your Mac to boot from the installer USB. It should be a fairly straightforward process. Yes, ask your friend to create a bootable installer for OS X El Capitan. OS X is distributed through the App Store now.
#How to install os x el capitave install#
I called their support number (I live in Italy), a representative answered from Greece. There is no OS X El Capitan install disk. I was lucky - my son had a MacBook 2008 just like the one I was trying to upgrade, and he graciously lent me a working backup disk to do this with.Īpple's response to the problem was highly unsatisfactory. erase the original user's data and put in your own info. Clone the USB disk with CCC to the Mac you're trying to upgrade. Clone the other Mac's HD on a USB disk with CarbonCop圜loner, making sure the clone is bootable (include a working copy of CCC in the process). OS X El Capitan (10.11) MacRumors attracts a broad audience of both consumers and professionals interested in the latest technologies and products. find a computer with installed MacOS 10.11. Webpages would only load after being refreshed 3-5 times, or not at all. However, I could not reliably access the internet. I could start applications, do my work and send and receive email. However, last week my computer was giving me headaches. Generaly speaking, my setup works very well. If it’s not correct, continue with these steps.

If your date is correct, then proceed to the next section below. The only solution that worked was complicated and klutzy: 1. I use Parallels on my iMac with Lion OS X and Windows XP. Cancel out to the installation (If you are still on your bootable image of El Captain). Another error message popped up, and said that my installation file was "probably corrupted" (freshly donwloaded from the Apple Store). Setting back the date to 2015 did not work for me.
