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Q: Installing El Capitan on new hard drive using createinstallmedia option

I am not able to restore the OS on an newly installed hard drive.  I replaced my hard drive on a Macbook Pro 2009 or 2010 version.  I have created a recovery file on a USB thumb drive for El Capitan using the createinstallmedia command from Terminal.  The specific command was: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app

 

booted up the computer holding the Option button but not seeing anything that is running the OS install or options to select an install disk. 

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Jul 30, 2016 4:13 PM

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