Stupid Apple! High Sierra Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted drives!

[davemchine]

I have a mini running snow leopard that I use for formatting drives. It’s stupid but that’s the direction Apple is going. Removing features as fast as they can and what isn’t removed is broken. It’s almost like they would prefer us to use IOS...

[Onamuji]

I've found the Yosemite Disk Utility quite useful in El Cap and beyond. (Yeah, did the hex editor trick.)

[space-time]

Onamuji wrote:
I've found the Yosemite Disk Utility quite useful in El Cap and beyond. (Yeah, did the hex editor trick.)

details please?

Thanks

[GuyGene]

:agree: Knuckleheaded Apple lately...

[ka jowct]

davemchine wrote:
…Removing features as fast as they can and what isn’t removed is broken. It’s almost like they would prefer us to use IOS...

The things you say…that’s crazy talk!


And I also keep Snow Leopard around for formatting drives (among other things).

[Onamuji]

space-time wrote:
[quote=Onamuji]
I've found the Yosemite Disk Utility quite useful in El Cap and beyond. (Yeah, did the hex editor trick.)

details please?
https://justus.berlin/2015/10/restore-ol...l-capitan/

[p8712]

Onamuji wrote:
[quote=space-time]
[quote=Onamuji]
I've found the Yosemite Disk Utility quite useful in El Cap and beyond. (Yeah, did the hex editor trick.)

details please?
https://justus.berlin/2015/10/restore-ol...l-capitan/
Thank you!

[space-time]

Onamuji wrote:
[quote=space-time]
[quote=Onamuji]
I've found the Yosemite Disk Utility quite useful in El Cap and beyond. (Yeah, did the hex editor trick.)

details please?
https://justus.berlin/2015/10/restore-ol...l-capitan/
yes, thank you.

Unbelievable that we have to resort to tricks like these

Explanation

You just changed a processor instruction in the application from JNE (Jump Not Equal, opcode 0F 85) to JE (Jump Equal, opcode 0F 84). Basically it is like this: Disk Utility checks if your system version matches its expectation. If this is not the case (= not equal), it shows a message and terminates. The patch above changes that check: The code now says that if the version does match the expectation (i.e. is equal), it will complain. In other words: This patched version of Disk Utility will not work on any system it was intended to work on, but will start just fine on any other.

[ka jowct]

freeradical wrote:
Where does one buy a "raw" drive anyway?

Some organic drive farmers well them at local green markets.

[space-time]

Onamuji wrote:
[quote=space-time]
[quote=Onamuji]
I've found the Yosemite Disk Utility quite useful in El Cap and beyond. (Yeah, did the hex editor trick.)

details please?
https://justus.berlin/2015/10/restore-ol...l-capitan/
So here is the question: why does Apple spend time and resources to remove features from the software, if the old version of the software works just fine in the new OS? Who takes these decisions at Apple?