

- INSTALL OS X EL CAPITAN DOWNLOAD ON EXTERNAL SSD HOW TO
- INSTALL OS X EL CAPITAN DOWNLOAD ON EXTERNAL SSD INSTALL
Once done you should be able to boot up under it, delete all the partitions on your internal drive (SSD) reformat it and then install the OS.

INSTALL OS X EL CAPITAN DOWNLOAD ON EXTERNAL SSD HOW TO
Then follow this How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive. You’ll need a 32 GB drive and it needs to be first formatted to GUID and a journaled file system. You’ll want to setup an OS installer USB thumb drive. Lets give this a try download a fresh copy of the OS installer from here How to get old versions of macOS. The highest OS your system can support is OS-X El Capitan (10.11.6) The very last issue is having a bad image and/or setup. Here’s the guide to put it in MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2009 Hard Drive Cable Replacement and lastly a bit more on the why! Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb The next issue you can face is a worn or damaged SATA cable MacBook Pro 13" Unibody (Mid 2009-Mid 2010) Hard Drive Cable Make sure you don’t crease the cable as that can damage it. So make sure you have a compatible drive before going forward If you look at the Interface line you’ll see “SATA 6 Gbps Interface, compatible with SATA 3 Gbps & 1.5 Gbps interfaces” Your series has an older SATA interface standard SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) most drives sold today are SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) and are fixed speed! Think of it like a bike which only has one gear choice here 6.0 and thats it! A few drives are Auto Sense! That is like a bike with three speeds! 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 Gb/s and that will work in your system as an example the Samsung 860 EVO is an auto sense drive.

One of the issues you can hit is the drive you bought may not be compatible with your system. Double click on 'OS X El Capitan.dmg' to mount this in 'Finder'.Once mount and open, it should show a name like this 'OS X El Capitan'.Copy this to your 'Documents' folder (Command + C and Command + V, or simply grab the icon and drop it in the 'Documents').Insert the USB drive to your computer and rename it like 'INSTALL'.
