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Aug 24, 2016 6:21 PM in response to Driveme2Godby Barney-15E,What year was your A1278 MBP made?
If after 2010, you should be able to boot into Internet Recovery (IR) and install the original shipping OS.
However, as already mentioned, restoring from your backup from IR would be simpler.
About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
Note that if it was from 2010, you would have had to install the firmware update to allow it to use IR.
If you cannot use IR, then you will need to install from the install DVD that shipped with your Mac.
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Aug 24, 2016 7:00 PM in response to Driveme2Godby ben0101,If you don't have any backup you can install the system via USB memory. To do this you need to download El Capitan from a Mac computer and make a USB bootable with this command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app
where /Volumes/Untitled is your USB memory.
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Aug 24, 2016 8:02 PM in response to Driveme2Godby leroydouglas,You first have to format the drive using Disk Utility, from Recovery
First all new drives must be formatted using Disk Utility.app—this is found in your Applications/Utilities folder, or via Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
The important part of formatting your drive for OS X is a GUID Partition Table and the file system Extended Journaled.
You can read more:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2990837/storage/how-to-format-a-startup-drive-in -el-capitan.html