The most important note!!! - You need Sata kext in 10.11 folder, that will make your HDD to show up in disk manager, without it you will get still waiting for root device and your HDD wont show up in disk utility and you wont be able to install EL Capitan on your HDD. utility that can install clover from windows. In case you did not listen to me and you want to do this harder way: Win 32 disk imager - this will be used to write image to USB, you can also use other software, there are many of them, i use this one. OSF Mount - This is most important tool, it can mount efi partition on image and edit it. DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with many versions of OS X/macOS to build a bootable drive from OS X/macOS installer program (the one you download from the App Store).As soon as you launch the application, it tries to find the OS X Install program with Spotlight. You don't need working mac installation or AHCI capable motherboard, it can be done on any PC. These boot install drives allow for things like easily formatting a Mac to perform a clean install of macOS Mojave, installing macOS Mojave onto multiple Macs without them each having to download the installer, or even as a troubleshooting tool since it can be booted from by any.This is Ultimate tutorial for installing Mac OSX up to EL Capitan 10.11. Sierra(10.12.x) and El Capitan(10.11.x) boot supported. The installer for OS X El Capitan downloads to your Downloads folder as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg. Enterprise administrators: Download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server. Get from the Finalversion of macOS High Sierra Build 17A365. Download on a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Much like prior versions of Mac OS, you can easily create a bootable install drive for MacOS Mojave 10.14. Make bootable USB Flash Disk for MAC OS X with Latest Clover bootloader revision fast and easy by one click under OS Windows. The “Restore” button in Disk Utility will copy the files from a backup to your main drive. Here’s where we get to that hidden feature we mentioned. You’ll be greeted with a list of all of your volumes, including your internal hard drive (probably called OS X or Macintosh HD) and your external hard drive.

Once you’ve managed to open up the Recovery Mode in some fashion, we can move on to wiping your drive securely.

Failing that, you can create a bootable USB installer for macOS Sierra, and boot from that by holding “Option” while turning on your Mac.

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