


Click on the red 'close' button on the top left hand corner to exit Disk Utility, and you'll be taken back to the installer screen.Ĩ. Click the 'Done' button once the erase process is complete. Enter anything you like, and then click on the 'Erase' button once again to confirm your action. Disk Utility will ask you if you want to give your hard drive a name.

Select your hard drive from the left hand side panel, and then click on the 'Erase' tab at the top.ħ. Click on 'Disk Utility' then 'Continue' on the bottom right corner.Ħ. The El Capitan installer will now load up from your USB flash drive. Select the 'Install OS X El Capitan' option and hit the 'Return' key on your keyboard.ĥ. Restart your Mac with the bootable USB drive plugged in, and hold down the 'Option' key on the keyboard until you see a screen that looks like the one shown below.Ĥ. Plug the bootable USB flash drive into your Mac's USB port.ģ. Follow our tutorial posted here on how you can do just that: How To Create OS X El Capitan Bootable USB Flash Drive – Tutorial.Ģ. Create a bootable OS X El Capitan USB flash drive. With that out of the way, follow the steps below on how you can clean install OS X El Capitan on your Mac.ġ.
