mfarooqi
Level 1
(8 points)
Q: how to make OSX installer SDcard using windows.
Hi, I had been updating my MacBook with OSX El Capitan in the night before yesterday. That was completed perfectly fine
Yesterday I got an update in OSX El Capitan. After restart My computer was stuck on 23% and an Apple logo on the screen. this took 3,4 hours. I restarted my MacBook by pressing and holding power button, and it restarted.
I had bootcamp with windows 7 also installed on it, In sudden I feel a need to run some windows app for some stuff.. and all I see when I restarted by pressing "Option" key,.. only one drive with Osx El Capitan, no any recovery HD, no any bootcamp drive.. ..
I restarted again and again.. But forgot to do any memory clean process.. by pressing P,R, Cammand Option, shift etc...
I took backup of all of my data, Re-downloaded OSX El Capitan from App Store. ... Created a bootable SDcard of 16GB. that was successful..
I restarted my MacBook with SDCard, for a fresh install I formatted my HDD, and processed with installation..
just before installation began... I got an error.. something like ... installation can not be done etc...
I have windows Laptop, with already downloaded older version . ..like maveriks, or Yosemite.. or even Snow Leopard 10.6 also.
Can somebody tell me how can I make my SDCard bootable from windows for any of these OSX.. I will reupdate again to El Capitan once I get my MacBook pro in working form again...
my MacBook pro is now nothing but a piece of machine.. please .......... somebody tell me how can I make it reuseable.
Thanks..
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 10GB, Core i5-2.3, 320GB
Barney-15E
Level 9
(50,072 points)
You can't make one on Windows, and you can't download OS X on a PC, either; and, Snow Leopard doesn't come as a download at all. So, if you downloaded any of those on Windows, I would be leery of using them.
However, it sounds like you may have a failing hard drive.
How old is your Mac? If from 2011 or later, you should be able to boot into Internet Recovery. Hold down cmd-opt-R on restart.
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
From your specs, it looks like an Early 2011 model which may be capable if you installed the firmware update to allow Internet Recovery.
Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery - Apple Support
