How to make a boot disk?

I would like to make a bootdisk in case of failure of the main drive. equipped with iMac 2009 El Capitan with a superdrive drive running.

Grateful for any help.

You must have a copy of the El Capitan installer that you downloaded from the App Store. Download the freeware called, DiskMaker Xutility. It allows to create an installation program bootable on USB of at least 16 GB.

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