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Hey.
I am trying to install OSX on a S.M.A.R.T failing HDD and the problem is, OSX won't let me partition the HDD via Disk Utility if it is SMART failing, it just won't show the option (apple's limitery...). I tried partitioning it on windows, and I have succeeded in making it a GUID Partitioning Table. Then I created a volume with ~970GB of free space, RAW filesystem, not formatted.
When I proceed with the installation from UniBeast, it works all fine until it gets to the point where it asks me to specify where I would like OSX to be installed to. It says OSX can't be started from that HDD... When I try to format it via Disk Utility, it says that there is not enough space for that to be done... Tried 'repairing' it with the Disk Utility, but it failed.
I also tried formatting it on windows with exFAT because I read it's good for the Mac OSX, and it can be formatted by windows too, so that's the thing I needed. But the same error persists...
Any suggestions, please? Like a workaround for that Disk Utility to let me partition even though the HDD is failing?
And please not one of those 'go buy a new HDD', or 'replace it' advices, because if I was dumb enough not to think of that, I couldn't post this message here.
Thanks.
I am trying to install OSX on a S.M.A.R.T failing HDD and the problem is, OSX won't let me partition the HDD via Disk Utility if it is SMART failing, it just won't show the option (apple's limitery...). I tried partitioning it on windows, and I have succeeded in making it a GUID Partitioning Table. Then I created a volume with ~970GB of free space, RAW filesystem, not formatted.
When I proceed with the installation from UniBeast, it works all fine until it gets to the point where it asks me to specify where I would like OSX to be installed to. It says OSX can't be started from that HDD... When I try to format it via Disk Utility, it says that there is not enough space for that to be done... Tried 'repairing' it with the Disk Utility, but it failed.
I also tried formatting it on windows with exFAT because I read it's good for the Mac OSX, and it can be formatted by windows too, so that's the thing I needed. But the same error persists...
Any suggestions, please? Like a workaround for that Disk Utility to let me partition even though the HDD is failing?
And please not one of those 'go buy a new HDD', or 'replace it' advices, because if I was dumb enough not to think of that, I couldn't post this message here.
Thanks.
