Wrong Disk Utility in El Capitan?

[richardp1512]

Sorry I'm a total newbie, only second step in the install instructions and already I'm stumped!!

The Disk Utility looks nothing like the one shown in the instructions? No Partition or GUID setting etc etc.

I have of course looked through the forum and have found something about this but I just cannot follow how to get the older utility to download and work so I can't format my USB !! Sorry in advance but could anyone help please?

 

[ant78]

It looks different but its the same, are you stuck on the partition part?

 

[richardp1512]

yes. The instructions say to click partition 1 but a Pie Chart comes up, and there seems to be no way to set to GUID either? Thanks

 

[ant78]

you move the pie chart around with your mouse but just leave it with the 1 partition, have you tried the dik utility for guid

 

[Going Bald]

Sorry I'm a total newbie, only second step in the install instructions and already I'm stumped!!

The Disk Utility looks nothing like the one shown in the instructions? No Partition or GUID setting etc etc.

I have of course looked through the forum and have found something about this but I just cannot follow how to get the older utility to download and work so I can't format my USB !! Sorry in advance but could anyone help please?

Select Erase and click the dropdown triangle for details - this is where you select GUID

 

[EV.forever]

Sorry I'm a total newbie, only second step in the install instructions and already I'm stumped!!

The Disk Utility looks nothing like the one shown in the instructions? No Partition or GUID setting etc etc.

I have of course looked through the forum and have found something about this but I just cannot follow how to get the older utility to download and work so I can't format my USB !! Sorry in advance but could anyone help please?

Unfortunately, Apple has eviscerated Disk Utility's functionality in 10.11. The good news is that all of its previous functionality is possible in the Terminal. If you just need to erase a USB, it's easy.

Get the disk identifier for your USB drive (i.e., disk1, disk2):

diskutil list

Erase command:

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ My\ USB\ Drive Name disk[1,2]

 

[richardp1512]

Thanks very much everyone - think I did it ok, disk says its formatted using guid.

Ended up with El Capitan installer and a folder called efi on the usb is that correct? Then I copied multibeast to it?

 

[EV.forever]

Thanks very much everyone - think I did it ok, disk says its formatted using guid.

Ended up with El Capitan installer and a folder called efi on the usb is that correct? Then I copied multibeast to it?

You got it!

 

[ant78]

Thanks very much everyone - think I did it ok, disk says its formatted using guid.

Ended up with El Capitan installer and a folder called efi on the usb is that correct? Then I copied multibeast to it?

lol know the real fun starts!