From this point, we’ve now provided plenty of installation files whether for installing macOS on Windows or on Mac. Such as macOS Sierra DMG, macOS High Sierra DMG, and more. That’s not the only thing. We’ve also provided the files for installing macOS on Windows via VMware or VirtualBox. That is macOS Catalina ISO, macOS Catalina VMDK, and a few more. With that ends up pretty much lots of downloads that help thousands of users every day to create, download, install, and enjoy making use of it. Now for installing El Capitan, we’ve shown how to Create Bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows 10.
While Apple’s operating systems and as well as Apple products are the most well-known things on the planet. Which has millions of users, Apple’s operating system particularly macOS, provide the ultimate user experience with the outstanding features and apps. With that so, those features and things are only interesting when you’ve installed. The installation or upgrade can be complex but not with a bootable USB installer, so here’s how to create one.
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macOS X El Capitan
Mar 12, 2020 On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or.pkg installer. Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal. Jun 20, 2015 If you have a spare USB flash drive laying around, you should consider putting it to good use by creating a bootable installation drive for the OS X El Capitan Beta. Creating a bootable drive has many benefits and uses. For starters, it makes it easy to install a fresh copy of whatever operating system you have configured on the drive. The target USB disk or flash drive will be erased first and then copy the files to it so that it will become a bootable OS X El Capitan installer. This can take a while to complete, so wait for the “Done” message before continuing.
El Capitan is the twelfth significant drop of the Macintosh operating system. After Yosemite, Apple announced its super new OS X El Capitan. In addition to Yosemite’s features and updates, Apple has included new features and tons of updates and new features. El Capitan is complete and even more of what a user needs. It’s entirely full of features and useful options and apps that even Windows and other operating systems users wish for. But that doesn’t mean Mac users aren’t excited for. In this post, I’ll show how to Create Bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows 10.
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Pretty much every single Mac user waits for Apple’s annual event for watching the only excellent product and software revealing event. That’s what happened with El Capitan. The reason for that is, El Capitan has such amazing features that none of them has been in the past or even now in other operating systems. Which makes you work and do things in easy and smart ways such as working on multiple programs at the same time with SplitView.
Now what happens is, there are lots of users who have access to both Windows & Mac. Most of those who want to install macOS X El Capitan would like to create a bootable USB installer on Windows. That’s because most of those users don’t have their Mac in use or without macOS installed or for some other reasons so here we are. Within this post, I’ll show how to Create Bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows.
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What You’ll Need
To create Bootable USB for Mac OS X El Capitan on Windows, you’ll need a few keys things. These are some necessary things that can’t the process can’t be done without. We’ll head over to how to create Bootable USB for macOS X El Capitan on Windows files. Go ahead and start collecting up the required files.
- An 8GB Pen Drive (USB Flash Drive)
- Download OSX El Capitan DMG
What is TransMac
Similar to what we did with other ones, we’ll also use TransMac for this part which is really useful and most users find it easy to do. Like every other USB Creation Tool that makes bootable USB but different from those. TransMac from Acute system is a Windows program that can copy and manage files and folders on Apple’s drives and devices, including Mac hard drives, flash drives, and other storage devices. It opens and writes disk images and .DMG files. This is a premium application but it has a 15-day free trial.
The features are completely supported by Windows. TransMac has also lots of new features and updates also TransMac for Windows can open disk drives in Macintosh format, flash drives, CD / DVD / Blu-ray media, DMG, software package, and scattered image files. Let’s see how to Create Bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows 10.
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How to Create Bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows
Creating bootable USB Installer can be done in different ways specifically create bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows and other macOS versions. The first way to do manually and the second way is to do a software that is pre-build to do all those with a click or two. From the software, we’ve chosen the easiest way despite we are neither sponsored or paid to do so. Here’s how to Create Bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows.
After the TransMac is installed, open it up.
Once it’s there, insert the USB drive and right-click on the USB drive and select Restore with Disk Image.
Choose Restore with Disk Image
In here when the window will come up, you just have to click OK.
Create Bootable USB for Mac OS X El Capitan with TransMac
A new pop up box will appear, click on the three-dots, and then select the macOS X El Capitan.DMG file from Windows. Then click on OK.
Since the file is huge so it will take quite time to complete. It may take about 20 to 30 mins or more.
Restoring OS X File into USB Flash
Once everything is done, it should finish without any problem and most likely it won’t. Aside from this, there is another way to create bootable USB for Mac OS El Capitan on Windows with other software like Unibest & DiskMakerX. The installation steps are also not much different but for that, you’ll need different software and a little bit different steps. But the nice thing is, both of them works fine and will work so choose whatever is easy and do it as yourself.
One nice thing that now you can upgrade any operating system to Capitan El because its one of the most amazing operating systems also has the most helpful features even you can upgrade from macOS X Yosemite and previous versions to El Capitan. If you haven’t still create Bootable USB for Mac OS El Capitan on Windows so do it right now and enjoy El Capitan with its unique things.
If you use pkgutil to expand the InstallMacOSX.pkg it opens to three items, the Distribution file, InstallMacOSX.pkg and Resources. You can alter the Distribution file to ignore the supported platform check, see below.
Creating the Install OS X El Capitan.app on a mac that came with a newer OS than El Capitan.
Download the InstallMacOSX.dmg from Section 4 of How To Upgrade To El Capitan
Double-click to open InstallMacOSX.dmg to Install MacOSX.pkg.
Drag InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Desktop.
Open Terminal, enter the text
Bootable Usb Installer For Os X El Capitan From Pkg 10
A folder will be created on the Desktop after a while with the contents of the .pkg file.
In there you will see an item called Distribution, Control-click on that and select Open With
go to Other and select Text Edit.
When the file opens scroll down to the section that reads,
function isSupportedPlatform(){
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type in at the end return true; so it now reads as,
function isSupportedPlatform(){return true;
Now click Save and close the document.
Go back to Terminal and enter the text,
Os X El Capitan Update
press Return, after several minutes, be patient, (check to see if the prompt has returned to Terminal) a new package will be created on the Desktop.
When created double-click on that and an installation window will open where you will now convert the
new InstallElCapitan.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which will be placed in your Applications folder.
You can now create a bootable USB using the install app and createinstallmedia,
If you have the time I would be grateful if you could give this a trial, it works here on my mac, but I would like confirmation from yourself or any others reading this that the procedure works on macs that came with macOS Sierra or newer pre-installed. Oh and tell me if my description of the procedure is easy to follow and understand..