Now we are going to install Mac OS X El Capitan. Select Reinstall OS X in the Recovery Mode. Click Continue when the OS X installer comes up. It will ask to select Agree or Disagree few times. Click on Agree or Continue on all selections. Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error: 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. I checked Apple’s support Matrix (it is a very old macbook pro) at and it was listed as supported.

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

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.

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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.