Help Please MacBook Keeps Shutting Down

[Riim17]

Hi Mac Gurus!

New to the forum.

I have a late 2009 MacBook Pro. I erased the hard drive and reinstalled El Capitan. Now when I'm powering up, it shuts down while at the grey start up screen. Luckily I saved all my files to an external. At this point, it seems like a hard drive failure. I'll probably upgrade to a SSD (Samsung EVO 850 seems popular) My question is, how would I go about installing El Capitan on the new SSD if I'm unable to boot up my MacBook right now. I read that I can create a USB bootable drive but don't I have to download and create it on my mac? (Which won't boot up) I don't need to clone my old HD as there's nothing on it so trying to find best solution.

Thanks for any input!

Roger

 

[Slydude]

You could use the Internet Recovery Option. This will reinstall whatever OS came with your Mac. From there, you can update to a newer OS. If your Mac had 10,6 (Snow Leopard) initially you'll need to use the disc that came with your computer to purchase a Snow Leopard disc from Apple.

 

[ferrarr]

How did you install El Capitan after you erased the drive?

Try an SMC reset, NVRAM reset, and Safe mode.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262