• Set the Name to El Capitan. Set the Format to OS X Extended (Journaled). Set the Scheme to GUID Partition Map. Click Erase to format the drive. Install OS X to the Target Drive. Exit the Disk Utility and click Install OS X. Click Show All Disks and select the drive you just formatted to install OS X on it. Finally, click Install.
• Once the install media and data backup are verified, boot the Mac with the install media and follow the prompts to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of OS X El Capitan.
• I have been trying to do a clean install of El Capitan on a friend's MacBook Pro late 2011. He has already upgraded but he is curious to see how the process goes with speech as this is his first time on Mac. We started by Command+R and Power Key and waited for sometime until the first screen appears.

1. Download El Capitan installation from the App store. It might complain that you already have it installed but download it anyway. It will be downloaded to /Applications and be named Install OS X El Capitan.app
2. Create a bootable image from the El Capitan installer on a USB stick larger than 6GB. In a terminal run:

Inside this step, then, you clicked preferences from here, pick CD/DVD (SATA) and click on Use ISO image file and navigate to get VM ISO file. Browse for ISO file of Mac OS X El Capitan. In this measure, browse VM Tool and click open to add the ISO file to the Mac OS X El Capitan. Select VM tools by Techrechard.com.

where MyVolume is the name of your USB stick. Change this to match the name of your USB stick.

3. Physically install SSD into the target laptop.
4. Insert the El Capitan USB stick into the target laptop and power up. (This might take a while.)
5. When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name.
6. Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu.
7. Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD.
8. Follow the prompts until El Capitan is installed.

Here’s link to a video on how to physically install the SSD as well as run the software installation.

If you’d rather install Yosemite on the SSD then follow the How to Install Yosemite on a New SSD guide.

Install El Capitan from Scratch

Backup if possible before continuing.

1. Restart the computer. Immediately after the chime hold down the Command and Rkeys until the Apple logo appears. When the Utility Menu appears:
2. Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on Continue button.
3. When Disk Utility loads select the volume (indented entry, usually Macintosh HD) from the Device list.
4. Click on the Erase icon in Disk Utility's main window. A panel will drop down.
5. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
6. Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it.
7. Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
8. Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.

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