After I got my new MBP, I decided to sell my old 2010 MBP. I wanted to keep all my existing data on my old laptop, so I decided to swap out its SSD and to put in a brand new one.
It was running on a normal 750G HDD, but i wanted an upgrade, so i bought the Samsung V-Nand 850 EVO SSD 1TB. I created a Bootable El-Capitan USB Stick, so i could do a clean install. After i swapped the HDD with the Samsung SSD, i plugged in my Bootable USB stick and turned on my macbook. First it shows the apple logo with a loading line. I downloaded El Capitan from the 'App Store' and then used 'DiskMaker X 5' to make a bootable usb. Loop software for water supply design free download. Restarted my laptop and booted from USB, and onto the El Capitan installation. From there I formatted the new SSD (MacOS Extended (Journaled) with a single GUID partition). The new OS X El Capitan features a new Split View, features in Safari, Mail, Notes, Maps, and Photos, and more. To get your hands on all this new stuff, you have to install the operating system on. Discord stuck checking for updates on mac os sierra. Make sure the El Capitan installer (or at least a copy of it), called Install OS X El Capitan.app, is in its default location in your main Applications folder (/Applications). Select the text of. So, it seems impossible to create a bootable usb to install MacOS into the new SSD. MacBook Pro 13', macOS 10.14.
The process of installing Yosemite on the new SSD was not as straightforward as I would have liked. I thought I’d blog about it to help anyone else who needed to do the same.
El Capitan Install Usb
Basically I was trying to sell a 2010 MBP with a new SSD, with Yosemite installed but not configured. Maxim dl pro suite keygen free.
- Download Yosemite installation from the App store. It might complain that you already have it installed but download it anyway. It will be downloaded to /Applications and be named Install OS X Yosemite.app
- Create a bootable image from the Yosemite installer on a USB stick larger than 6GB. In a terminal run:
where MyVolume is the name of your USB stick. Change this to match the name of your USB stick.
- Physically install SSD into the target laptop.
- Insert the Yosemite USB stick into the target laptop and power up. (This might take a while.)
- When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name.
- Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu.
- Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD.
- Follow the prompts until Yosemite is installed.
Here’s link to a video on how to physically install the SSD as well as run the software installation.
Install El Capitan On New Ssd Mac
If you’d rather install El Capitan on the SSD then follow the How to Install El Capitan on a New SSD guide.
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