
Here’s link to a video on how to physically install the SSD as well as run the software installation. Follow the prompts until El Capitan is installed.Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD.Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu.When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name.Insert the El Capitan USB stick into the target laptop and power up.Physically install SSD into the target laptop.Change this to match the name of your USB stick.


Where MyVolume is the name of your USB stick. Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app Create a bootable image from the El Capitan installer on a USB stick larger than 6GB.It will be downloaded to /Applications and be named Install OS X El Capitan.app It might complain that you already have it installed but download it anyway. Download El Capitan installation from the App store.
