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

[Winston]

Another comment on Onamuji's link, by dimosgmx, offers an alternative method for patchiing and offers some utilities:

Extract Disk Utility from either Yosemite or El Capitan installer package:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/f...tilityzip/

Automatically patch Disk Utility from Yosemite to run on El Capitan:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/f...litypatch/