![]() ![]() I made sure not to select "Macintosh HD", instead selecting (what I guess would be) the parent hard drive (probably not the right name for it, but you know what I mean, the topmost thing). After that finally loads (USB 2.0 is terrible) I choose Disk Utility from the list, and select my internal hard drive (of which there is only one). I successfully restart my computer (while holding the option key) to boot from my "Install OS X El Capitan" USB drive. So now that I have my bootable USB, I want to do a clean install. No problem-I'll just upgrade to El Capitan, and then create the bootable USB drive so I can do a clean install after. A google later, I found out the command inside the installer doesn't work on Snow Leopard. Next, I tried to create a bootable USB drive using Terminal. I unplugged the drive after it finished, just to be safe. I have all my important data backed up on an external hard drive (not time machine, just backed up). I was running 10.6.8 (the default operating system on my early 2011 macbook pro) for far too long and finally decided to make the switch to El Capitan, and-why not-do a clean install in the process.
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