Having a trouble with the Mac OS X El Capitan installation? Got this error message screen “OS X could not be installed on your computer – file system verify or repair failed” while installing El Capitan? Don’t worry. Today we are going to share how to fix this error message. We have two methods to fix this problems. The first method we are going to try is to scan your Mac hard drive using the Disk Utility, and if it doesn’t work we are going to re-install Mac OS X El Capitan through the Recovery Mode. Let’s get it started!
First Method – Disk Utility
OS X El Capitan is already installed on this Mac. Quit the Installer to restart your computer and try again. You need to increase EFI partition if you want to dual boot with windows in uefi mode, if you still can't, maybe you need to use kernel patch for your CPU. Looks like you trying to install mac on ntfs partitioned hdd, you say you just. Jan 15, 2020 OS X could not be installed on your computer. No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. Oh dear When trying to install OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) you may encounter this message. I just got the following message, macOS could not be installed on your computer, while trying to install macOS High Sierra. In both cases there was the same cause. In the El Capitan case, as I say in the next paragraph, the hardware clock had reset to zero because it did not have a battery pack.
Step 01. Power off your Macbook or iMac completely.
Step 02. Turn on your Mac pressing and holding the Command + R Keys at the same time.
Step 03. Release the keys when you the Apple Logo appears.
Step 04. Please select Disk Utility and click on Continue.
Step 05. Select your hard drive and click on First Aid.
Step 06. It will ask you to perform checking the hard drive (Would you like to run First Aid on “Your Hard Drive”). Please select Run.
Step 07. Wait until the processing is done and when the processing is finished, restart your Mac. (If this method didn’t work for you, we recommend you to re-install Mac OS X using the second method below.)
Second Method – Re-install Mac OS X
Step 01. Power off your Macbook or iMac completely.
Step 02. Turn on your Mac pressing and holding the Command + R Keys at the same time to boot into the Recovery Mode.
Step 03. Please select Reinstall OS X and click on Continues.
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Step 04. Now it will download and install the Mac OS X on your Mac computer. It will take some time to finish the installation process. Hope you successfully install El Capitan on your Macbook or iMac.