How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive<article>
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Editor’s note: This guide is based on the latest versions of the El Capitan (OS X 10.11) Developer Beta and Public Beta. We’ll update the article when the official version of El Capitan is available.]</p><p>When OS X shipped on a DVD a good number of years ago, you always had the convenience of a bootable installer—an OS X installer that could be used to boot your Mac if its own drive was having problems. But to install or reinstall a recent version of OS X, you must either download a non-bootable installer from the Mac App Store or (via OS X’s invisible, bootable
recovery partition) download 6GB of installer data from Apple’s servers
during the installation process. In other words, you no longer have the same safety net or convenience.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2981585/operating-systems/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-10-11-el-capitan-installer-drive.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive
