Hello,
I was planning on buying an SSD for my early 2009 Macbook Pro and doing a clean install of El Capitan. Problem is, my keyboard is somewhat damaged and the Control key behaves as if it's continuously pressed (I'm temporarily dealing with this by having the key disabled using Karabiner). For this reason, I will not be able to make my Mac boot up from a bootable flash drive as I intended (holding down the Alt key as the laptop starts does nothing, because it registers the Control key at the same time and the Alt-Ctrl combination doesn't work).
Since an external keyboard wouldn't do the job either, I was wondering whether there are other ways of installing the OS on an SSD, like for example by connecting the SSD externally at first and making it into a bootable drive so that when I place it inside the Mac I'll be able to install El Capitan directly from there? I don't know if that even makes sense, just wondering if there's a similar possible solution. If not, I'll clearly have to look into replacing my keyboard first, though I was hoping to avoid spending money on that process for now.
I was planning on buying an SSD for my early 2009 Macbook Pro and doing a clean install of El Capitan. Problem is, my keyboard is somewhat damaged and the Control key behaves as if it's continuously pressed (I'm temporarily dealing with this by having the key disabled using Karabiner). For this reason, I will not be able to make my Mac boot up from a bootable flash drive as I intended (holding down the Alt key as the laptop starts does nothing, because it registers the Control key at the same time and the Alt-Ctrl combination doesn't work).
Since an external keyboard wouldn't do the job either, I was wondering whether there are other ways of installing the OS on an SSD, like for example by connecting the SSD externally at first and making it into a bootable drive so that when I place it inside the Mac I'll be able to install El Capitan directly from there? I don't know if that even makes sense, just wondering if there's a similar possible solution. If not, I'll clearly have to look into replacing my keyboard first, though I was hoping to avoid spending money on that process for now.
