Hello Everyone,

The long and short of it is that for the past 3 releases of OS X, I have
made USB key installs so, in case of a catastrophe, I could simply insert
the USB key, launch the install and get back up and running without having
to be connected to the internet.

Tonight, I decided to perform a fresh install of El Capitan on my 2009
MacBook Pro.  

Before I began, I completely wiped the internal drive of all its partitions
but, when I tried to install from the USB key, I kept getting an alert that
the copy of El Capitan could not be verified and the only option I was given
was to click the OK button, upon so doing, simply took me back to the
beginning/start screen.  

After going through this several times, I attached an Ethernet cable,
thinking that this would allow the copy to be verified but, no, I kept
receiving the same alert.

Finally, I gave up and used the Yosemite USB key which did not give me any
trouble, whatsoever.  

Any thoughts on this?  

By the way, before I began, I tested El Capitan on this particular computer
by running a cloned copy of it from one of my USB Thunderbolt drives.

I would hate to think that my El Capitan USB key is useless.

All comments, greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Mark

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