Making the installer drive. Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive, and rename the drive Untitled. (The Terminal commands I provide here assume that. Make sure the El Capitan installer (or at least a copy of it), called Install OS X El Capitan.app, is in its default. Apr 03, 2016 In the following instruction, we show specifically how to make a Mac OS X bootable installation USB from El Capitan.DMG, Yosemite.DMG, Maverick.DMG or any OS X older versions on Windows PC. This is cool for Windows users who want to install Mac OS X on their PC, but useful for Mac users when their Mac is not working and needs to be re-installed.

Free. Open Source. PortableApps.com ▼ Create bootable USB. Plug your drive into any eligible Mac to install El Capitan. To do this, shut down the mac you want to install El Capitan onto. Plug the Flash Drive into the computer. Reboot by pressing the power button and holding down the ⌥ Option key while it starts up. Follow the onscreen instructions to install OS X El Capitan.

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In the range of this writing, we will show you how to make an USB installer for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan using 2 different methods: DiskMaker X and Terminal.

You might want to look at the instruction to download and create USB installer for Mac OS X (Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion) in our another topic.

Preparation

You need to prepare following necessary tools and utilities:

• An USB 8GB or bigger.
• OS X El Capitan installer application must be on the Mac and in the /Applications/ folder. Mac OS X 10.11 can be downloaded from Apple Store. You may want to take a look on our another topic – Download Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.DMG – InstallESD.DMG.
• Download DiskMaker X here.

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Solution 1: Make OS X El Capitan USB installer via DiskMaker X

Step 1: Run DiskMaker X,choose El Capitan when you are asked which version of OS X you want to make a boot disk.

Step 2: Choose Select an Install file…

Step 3: Locate and selet El Capitan installer in Applications/
Step 4: Click An 8GB USB thumb drive
Step 5: Select the right USB then click on Choose this disk.
Step 6: Click on Erase button then create the disk
Step 7: Choose Continue and fill the administrator password when you are asked.
Step 8: Wait until the process is finished.
You now have an OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer in a bootable USB.

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Solution 2: Create OS X El Capitan installer in a bootable USB installer using Terminal

You need to follow exactly step by step in details.

Step 1: Format and make USB bootable

1. Plug USB into Macbook and run Disk Utility > Select the USB drive in the left side > Click on Erase > Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format > Apply.
2. Go to Partition tab > Select 1 Partition at Partition Layout.
3. Change the name to ElCapInstaller from Untitled > Click on Option.

5. Choose GUID Partition Table and click OK.

6. Click on Apply to format USB > End the Disk Utility when the process is completed.

Step 2: Using Terminal command line

• Launch Terminal (Applications/Utilities). Copy and Paste the following code (pay attention on ElCapInstaller, the name of USB) and Enter.

sudo /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/ElCapInstaller –applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app –nointeraction

• Type the administrator password, and then it will be finished you see the “Done”.

With having an bootable USB which contains OS X El Capitan installer, you could easily to install OS X 10.11 on your Mac device by pressing and holding Option (Alt) key when booting.

In the following instruction, we show specifically how to make a Mac OS X bootable installation USB from El Capitan.DMG, Yosemite.DMG, Maverick.DMG or any OS X older versions on Windows PC.

This is cool for Windows users who want to install Mac OS X on their PC, but useful for Mac users when their Mac is not working and needs to be re-installed new and fresh Mac Operating System.

Basically, you need two things: A MacOS X.DMG (or.ISO) and TransMac software.

• At for Bootable MacOS images, you can download any versions from our existing shares here: https://applehint.com/t/download-all-macos-x-10-4-10-14-original/376
• TransMac v11 full version:
  

  Acute Systems TransMac v11.zip (download)

  3.90 MB

  Please leave a comment if the download link does not work. Otherwise, you can download the trial version of TransMac here.

How to create Mac OS X bootable USB on Windows?

Download El Capitan Installer

• You need to prepare an USB (8Gb or bigger).
• Run TransMac by Run as administrator
• Right-mouse the USB drive, choose Restore with Disk Image

• From the warning dialog box, just click on Yes

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• Browse for the DMG file, then Click on OK button

• The whole process then takes a few minutes to finish

Cheers!