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I also have an external 250 GB Time Machine drive with most of my files on it, so I should be set there. Would it be better to upgrade the OS on my current boot drive first and make sure everything is working, or could I go ahead and switch out the drives and boot up in recovery mode and immediately download and clean install El Capitan?
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To download El Capitan, read this, How to upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support scroll down to Section 4 and click on Get El Capitan. I thought this might be a way to clean it all up and "start fresh" so to speak. El Capitan was only ever available as a free download direct from Apple, if you are buying it or any recovery DVD you are being ripped off. Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD. Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu. ( This might take a while.) When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name. It does not have it as download, if your Apple-ID has never registered a machine with El Capitan. Insert the El Capitan USB stick into the target laptop and power up. I've been using migration assistant for like 4 previous computers and have never done a clean install. katemor Its not true that App Store no longer has El Capitan as download.

I purchased an OWC Data Doubler for my Late 2011 15" MacBookPro and I would like to do a clean install of El Capitan onto the new SSD drive when it comes out at the end of the month. Its full bootable ISO picture of Macintosh operating system X El Capitan 10.11.6 Intel USB Introduce.
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Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Intel USB Install Liberated Free Download Most recent For Macintosh. Hi I searched clean install and found some useful information, but the threads are archived and I had a few more questions. MacOS is the current name of the former OS X, previously known as Mac OS X.
