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Thank you dede74000 - Mac OS X Snow Leopard purchased. And... surprise... my CD drive isn't working! So, I took the initiative to put the CD in my external drive but obviously it doesn't work on my MAC either... so I connected it to my other Mac, transferred the program to a USB drive. When I insert the USB drive and copy to the desktop, the message that appears is "The application 'Install Mac OS X' cannot be used from this volume".... Slowly but surely ;-) What should I do, boss? Thank you.

What is the reference for the external drive? It may just be a matter of installing the driver for Mac, unless this drive is incompatible.
The internal drive might work after being cleaned with a CD Cleaner.
The USB key, on which Snow Leopard was copied, is certainly not formatted as it should be.
Therefore, information on these topics needs to be provided. We'll see afterwards.

Just in case, here’s a tutorial on creating a USB key for Snow Leopard:
https://www.macg.co/2009/12/pas-à-pas-créez-une-clef-usb-bootable-pour-dépanner-votre-mac-58974

If it's an Apple SuperDrive, it should be recognized automatically.
You plug it in, insert your DVD, and it should mount on the desktop.
Are your Finder preferences set correctly?

No luck... it doesn't recognize it because my Mac Book Pro has an internal optical drive (the included drive) and since it dates back to before 2008... no possible driver... Great ;-)
I will try the option of buying a USB key with a lot of gigabytes to format it and prepare it as you suggested in one of your links ;-)

Re-read my message above. Your DVD should appear on the desktop, there is no reason it shouldn't.
Maybe you need to select it from the menu bar, click on the eject icon while holding the option (alt) key down.

Where did you see that? First of all, your MBP is the 15" "mid 2009" model, so it’s from after 2008! You can check it by going to this page: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/HT201300

Also here: https://checkcoverage.apple.com/fr/fr/?sn=W8928AF87XJ

I don't know what the power output of each USB port is, but just to be safe, you can use a dual-input USB cable and a single output, which allows you to draw from two USB connectors on the MBP, or you can use a powered USB hub.

I thought I had seen that ;-) I clicked on USB Device Tree and it shows up - USB BUS, Apple Internal Keyboard, BRCM2046 USB Bus, High-Speed USB Bus (iSight), and MacBook Air Super Drive USB Bus. But I don't feel like it's powered...that damn external drive - And I'm replying to you every time from my own Retina Mac.

I've included a link in my response #5, you should be able to create a bootable key using "Diskmaker, check here to download it: https://www.cd-systems.fr/telechargement-fiche.php?num=81

I don't know what model your Retina is and if, from it, you can work with Snow Leopard. If it was delivered with that OS and if your external drive is operational when connected to it, then yes, you should be able to create a key with DiskMaker.

Personally, I would have tried using a cleaning CD for the drive, as I suggested in my response #5, it's cheap and usually works well.

Read response number 3, I explained everything to you with the links that will guide you to get it.

However, upon re-reading, I see that I didn't specify that you need to install 2 memory sticks of 4 GB, replacing the ones currently in place, unless you think you can manage with just the 4 GB that are currently installed, but beware of slowdowns.

Look here for the obtaining procedure: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/HT211683

Did you follow the instructions?

When I have 5 minutes, I boot from my Snow Leopard disk and take a look.

Indeed, I followed the instructions, but when I try to grab the El Capitan update... here is the response: "The item you're looking for is not available in the French Store."

And passing through the other link, the iTunes one?
By the way, did you create an App Store account?

Is it possible that you, by any chance - by the greatest of chances, might have already downloaded it ;-) )))))) to get your own Macs compliant? And so, you could send it to me? Tell me you have it somewhere. I read that it could be in the purchases of those who have Macs from that era. Of course, I looked in my High Sierra (which I upgraded to Mojave yesterday) but found no trace of the update (which is normal, you'd say!)
Do you have it?

So it seems there's a problem with Apple.
I tried from my version of Snow Leopard and got the same result, even worse because since the second link, there's no connection.
By going through the App Store (Apple menu/App Store) and clicking on updates, I can get Mavericks, so I'm thinking you could check that side, and if it's good, you could start by installing that version while waiting for it to be possible again to get El Capitan.
Since 10.6, I haven't even been able to connect to my account, strange.

Since El Capitan, no problem, I can get Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan; my account is accessible.

It's not me who crashed Apple ;-) Well, when I try to type "Mavericks" in the Apple Store - I'm not given the option to download Mavericks, it's not available. There are only Learn, Basic, etc. paid software and the only free one is Tutor for OS Mavericks...

When you are on the App Store page, you click on "update" (icon all the way to the right), have you tried it?

Yes, it's done. No updates available. I think I already updated this morning ;-)

Weird all that!

With the launch of Mojave, the guys must have messed things up, we have to wait a few days for them to restore the circuits.
Hence the precaution of having created a USB key after downloading.

If, temporarily, that is enough for your happiness, yes!

Hi Francis,

I gave this link in my response #3 but, no results! I tried from my Snow Leo version, with no results! And, since Snow Leopard, yesterday, my Apple ID wasn’t even recognized.
However, when I logged into the App Store/updates/, it offered me Mavericks for download :)
I don't know what they are doing at Apple, but it's glitchy!

PS: Did you take a little break? Is the work progressing?

Best wishes and have a great weekend ;-)

PS2: I couldn’t edit my message from SL, with which I tried to download again from this link and, it works today. So there really was a bug yesterday.

Hi Dede,

a thousand apologies, I didn't see that you had already posted the right link... I read the topic too quickly :(

It's a link that I had saved, having already encountered this kind of issue on the forum. It has always worked well for me, but only if you don't have a higher OS version when making the download request.

See you later

Best regards :)

Thank you guys! Francis & Dede74000! I tried – I do end up on the OS El Capitan page – but I can't download it – nothing happens when I click on get...............Is there anyone who has downloaded it – stored it somewhere and could send it to me ???????
See you soon,

You must have a problem with your Mac that prevents downloading because yesterday, after starting my Mac from my hard drive running Snow Leopard, I had no issues, the download started normally, unlike the day before.
Go to Disk Utility, select your hard drive, and run a permissions repair and then a disk repair, and then try again from the link under iTunes that we provided you. (The one from Francis)

Have you done all the updates for your Mac? (Apple menu/Software Update)

Don't worry! Since I managed to open it (as requested), I opened it with the app store ;-) So indeed I had deleted that request to not clutter this thread of questions ;-)

Hello,

I just downloaded this El Capitan from the link mentioned above. I did it after starting the Mac under 10.6.8 - no issues, I just had to enter my Apple ID in the App Store. Then the download went smoothly. But since the file is 6.22 GB, it still takes a good half hour. Making this installer available on a cloud poses no problem, except that you need to have enough available space, and it will take quite a while to upload. But it's still doable. That said, there’s no objective reason why what I just did wouldn’t work elsewhere, on a Mac running at least Mac OS X 10.6.8 with a functional system. If the failures persist, it is necessary to indicate the exact symptoms and messages of this failure.





Best regards.

I will try this as soon as I'm back - Thursday ;-) thank you for your hard work for novices ;-)))) see you soon, Saverio62