OS X El Capitan - Full OS Install - Reinstall/Recovery/Upgrade or Repair Bootable Utility USB, USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 3 Drive

in this video we'll cover how to install a fresh OS X or Mac OS operating system on an empty drive this is very useful for when you're upgrading or you have had a crashed hard drive and you're starting from scratch so there are three ways to do this the first way is cloning if you have any drive with OS X on it we can clone it onto the new drive the second way to do this is through a USB or a DVD media if you have an original installation disk or a USB otherwise we'll have to make one and then the third way is internet recovery using Apple's internet recovery option for this will require a high-speed Wi-Fi internet connection cloning to an empty drive if you have access to another Mac the cool thing about max is that they use UEFI unified extensible firmware interface that means you can take an older Mac OS X hard drive pop it into almost any Mac with a SATA to USB cable or SSD adapter