I accidentally Erased my Macintosh HD . I have an OS X El Captian Image I made it bootable using Transmac . But when I pressed option key after powering it on to boot from the flash drive I can't see my bootable USB drive there. All I can see is my Internet Recovery. Need Help ASAP .
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
I don't think you can make a bootable drive while booted into Internet Recovery.
If you downloaded El Capitan on a Windows computer using a link from a web site, that isn't a legal Apple download and the download probably will not work correctly if installed. It also may have come bundled with malware.
The safest thing to do is reinstall the OS from Internet Recovery. Once rebooted, if necessary, you can then upgrade to El Capitan using the link below. That will take you to the App Store where you can get a good download.
Another option is if you have access to another Mac, you can sign into the App Store using your Apple ID, do the download using the link below, and then make a bootable installer using the links I posted earlier.
You can try to download it at the link below. If it won't let you, then your only options are to upgrade to Sierra/High Sierra or find an older computer where you can download it using your Apple ID.
I don't think you can make a bootable drive while booted into Internet Recovery.
If you downloaded El Capitan on a Windows computer using a link from a web site, that isn't a legal Apple download and the download probably will not work correctly if installed. It also may have come bundled with malware.
The safest thing to do is reinstall the OS from Internet Recovery. Once rebooted, if necessary, you can then upgrade to El Capitan using the link below. That will take you to the App Store where you can get a good download.
Another option is if you have access to another Mac, you can sign into the App Store using your Apple ID, do the download using the link below, and then make a bootable installer using the links I posted earlier.
You can try to download it at the link below. If it won't let you, then your only options are to upgrade to Sierra/High Sierra or find an older computer where you can download it using your Apple ID.
Your drive may not be bootable if it doesn't show up there. What happens if you try command - R during a restart? Can you reinstall from Internet Recovery?
You can make a bootable USB stick to install using these free programs which will do all the work for you.
Bootable USB Flash Drive – Diskmaker X Disk Creator oruse Apple’s method Create a bootable installer for OS
Unfortunately my net connection is very slow I have about 5mb/s only .
eric root I have another question
the 3rd method i.e Apple’s Method can I do this in internet recovery mode
i have an El Capitan dmg what can I do with the image in recovery mode ?
: Can I create a bootable installer for os x in recovery mode using terminal??
: is There any solution for my problem ??
: what can I do to see my disk in the menu where I press option after the chime sound??
I used my hp spectre to download Mac OS X El Capitan.dmg
I used tansmac and selected restore with disk image and it did some transfer and the files were in my hp pendrive (USB 2.0) and I can’t access my pendrive in windows It says the thumb drive should be formatted . But when I run internet recovery in my Mac I used disk utility and saw my pendrive With 7gb installed of Mac os x el captian.
Transmac appears to be Windows software. Exactly how are you using it?
Can I do this in Recovery mode?? Need Help ASAP
