We need to prepare a USB thumb drive that will contain the installation files as well as the bootloader and custom kexts for our specific Hackintosh build. Preparing the USB Installation Driveįirst things first. That includes OS X, your user data, and personal files.
#REINSTALLING MAC OS X EL CAPITAN INSTALL#
When you install El Capitan on your current startup drive with the clean install method, you erase everything on the drive.
This guide focuses on the 'clean install' method. OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11) offers two installation methods.
#REINSTALLING MAC OS X EL CAPITAN HOW TO#
How to Perform a Clean Install of OS X El Capitan. Here is a vanilla guide to installing El Capitan on your PC! I chose to avoid the UniBeast installer (by Tonymacx86) because of its commercialized nature, as described here. A computer running OS X (10.9 or later) for preparing the installation USB flash drive.A dedicated hard drive (SSD highly recommended).A USB flash drive with at least 16GB capacity.It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. Download: OS X El Capitan This downloads as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg.Remember, this method is not the same as a clean install, and it only reinstalls the version of OS X that is currently running on the Mac (shown here with El Capitan), whereas Internet Recovery will reinstall the version of OS X that shipped with the Mac (in this case it would have been Yosemite) instead.Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue. Once you’ve done that, here’s how to install, reinstall, or upgrade to El Capitan, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys.Reinstalling Os X El Capitan This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable.This guide is for evaluation purposes only. Please buy a real Mac if you're satisfied with your Hackintosh. Also, note that installing OS X on PC is illegal. I am not responsible for any damage or information loss that could result from following this guide. Warning: Please follow these instructions at your own risk.
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