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Click on the 'Apply' button to create the partition. With your USB drive plugged in and the El Capitan installer sitting in the Applications folder, launch the Terminal app. I am trying to create a fresh install of OS X on a MacBook Pro (2009 - A1278 - El Capitan 10.11.6 - 2.26Ghz - 8GB DDR3 - 240SSD) so I can sell it. My problem is, I have created a USB bootable drive. Now select the “Recovery HD” on the left in device list and click Mount from the top menu bar. Now click the restore tab in disk utility on the right. Drag the “Recovery HD” volume to the Source field and the indented USB drive partition to the Destination field. Creating Recovery USB drive using Disk Utility.

If the bootable USB has Catalina on it that is not good, a MBP from 2011 cannot install Catalina.

It can only install up to High Sierra. Install el capitan from usb.

In Disk Utility if you want to erase the Disk highlight the Disk not the indented Volume,

so instead of highlighting Main highlight Hitachi, click Erase.

Give the disk a name, Format: MacOS X Extended (Journaled), Scheme: GUID Partition Map,

click Erase.

If you are trying to download an OS through Recovery connect the mac to your router using a cable, do not rely on WiFi.


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If you have another mac that you know can run El Capitan you can download it from here

At Section 4 click on Download OS X El Capitan. This will download installMacOSX.dmg

to your downloads folder. Open that and you will get InstallMacOSX.pkg.

Double-click on that, an installation window will open, this does not install El Capitan

but converts the .pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which will appear in your Applications folder.

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Use that t create a bootable USB installer, How to create a bootable installer for macOS – Apple Support

Please note this will not work on macs that came preinstalled with macOS's newer than El Capitan.


If you have trouble installing from Internet Recovery this may be due to the installers on the servers having outdated certificates. Changing the date in Terminal may help. Copy and paste this into Terminal, sudo may or may not be needed.


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With the date set to a time before the certificates expired you may be able to download an installer.

If you get an OS installed then you can reset the date and time in System Preferences back to today.


If you want to install High Sierra then click on Get macOS High Sierra in Section 4 here,

How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support this should download

Install macOS High Sierra directly to your Applications folder, again use that to create a

bootable installer


The screen looks like the graphics card has expired, could be difficult to replace I think it is welded to the motherboard.


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Install El Capitan from Scratch


Backup if possible before continuing.


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  1. Restart the computer. Immediately after the chime hold down the Command and Rkeys until the Apple logo appears. When the Utility Menu appears:
  2. Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on Continue button.
  3. When Disk Utility loads select the volume (indented entry, usually Macintosh HD) from the Device list.
  4. Click on the Erase icon in Disk Utility's main window. A panel will drop down.
  5. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
  6. Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it.
  7. Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
  8. Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.

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