Fresh install of El Capitan on a new SSD?

volt9291

volt9291

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My Macbook pro 2012 has something wrong with the HDD, disk utility cant repair it and it wont boot, so I am just going to put in a new SSD either:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...olid-state-drive-mz-75e250b-eu-hd-191-sa.html

or

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cruc...lid-state-drive-ct240bx200ssd1-hd-060-cr.html

will either of these be ok?

The thing I really need to know is how do I install El Capitan on a new SSD?

From looking around google/youtube I need to make an install on a USB drive, but how can I do this as all the videos show that you need to boot your mac, goto the app store download it etc. to make the USB install drive well I cant do that as I cant boot my macbook or they talk about doing a clone of the drive which also I don't want to do
 
Boot into recovery mode - CMD+R during boot up. It'll do an internet recovery. Takes a while...but get it started and just leave it to it.
 
I did an internet recovery recently on a 2011 MacBook - worked well.

The only issue was that with a fresh SSD installed, the internet recovery downloaded Lion (the version which shipped with the MacBook) rather than El Capitan. So I had to recover to Lion then upgrade to El Capitan (which involved another 6GB download from the App Store).

Suppose it makes sense that it recovers to the out-of-the-box state, but still a bit annoying that there was no option to download El Capitan right off the bat.
 
Thanks for the answers, so i can simply put the new SSD in, CMD+R boot, format the SSD and then install from there, then upgrade when its up and running?
 
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Edit: I have deleted this post, just in case it did happen to fall foul of any OcUK Forum rules.

For anyone who might have read it previously, I managed to obtain what I required from a friendly eBay seller, for a very nominal sum!
 
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