DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with many versions of OS X to build a bootable drive from OS X 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. Then, it proposes to build a bootable install disk and make it look as nice as possible. It’s the easiest way to build an OS X Installer in a few clicks ! Then you can use the Install drive to fully re-install the OS on a freshly formated drive, or install it on your many Macs without re-downloading the full installer.
Create El Capitan bootable USB disk with DiskMaker X by Rida Imran Oct 5, 2015 Mar 29, 2016 OS X 10.11 El Capitan is easy to install if you have to download it from Mac App Store. Purchase Mac OS X Lion installer on the Apple Store. When it was still Lion DiskMaker, DiskMaker X had the ability to burn DVDs too. Older versions are available here. Download DiskMaker 2.0.2 ( ZIP file, about 3 MB). NB: this version of DiskMaker X is not able to build a Mavericks installer from Mac OS X 10.6.8.
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Downgrade Mac OS X (e.g: Downgrade Mac OS X Yosemite to El Capitan) 1. Download the OS X Yosemite installer from Mac App Store. Download the Diskmaker X app to create a bootable USB drive for El Capitan's downgrade. Insert a USB drive into Mac, launch Diskmaker X, and choose OS X Yosemite 10.10. Then the Diskmaker X will do the rest jobs. Select version of OS X (in our case El Capitan) Select copy of OS X installation app. Select USB drive that will be used for USB installation. And wait a few minutes till the the DiskMaker X finish creating process. To install OS X El Capitan restart computer hold the Option key and select Installation USB drive from the menu. Because of this, I recommend creating your own bootable El Capitan (OS X 10.11) installer drive on an external hard drive or USB thumb drive. An El Capitan-compatible version of DiskMaker X is.
1. Get an an empty flash drive with at least 8GB of storage
2. Download OS X El Capitan
3. Download DiskMaker X
4. Double-click on the .dmg file to open it and drag-and-drop the DiskMaker X app into the Applications folder
5. Now load DIskMaker X. When you load the app, it will ask you which version of OS X do you want to make a boot disk of. You can choose Mavericks, Yosemite and of course, El Capitan. We’ll choose El Capitan
6. Now, the app will search for a copy of OS X El Capitan. Once it found your El Capitan copy, it will ask you if you want to use the copy that it found or you want to use another copy. If you downloaded it from the app store ( step 2 ), choose ‘Use this copy’
7. Now the app will ask you about your thumb drive, and it will tell you that will be completely erased before copying OS X El Capitan onto it…
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8. Now the app will format your flash drive and ask you for your admin password. Once you enter your admin password, DiskMaker X will start copying the necessary El Capitan files onto your flash drive.
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NOTE: this process will take a while. Be patient….
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9. When you’re done, the app will tell you that the boot disk is ready, you’ll see that your flash drive has been renamed as OS X 10.11 Install Disk and it will be opened. Now all you have to do is restart your Mac and and after you here the chime sound, press the Option ( Alt ) key until you see the option to choose the flash drive to boot from.