3/8/2024 0 Comments Macbook a1181 mac os supportWhen I opened up Disk Utility to fulfill this request, I was met with a screen that said something to the effect of, "SMART FAILURE DETECTED, WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO FORMAT THIS DRIVE. When I first booted this OSX 10.6 Retail disc, it told me that I needed to format it to a GUID Partition Map before Snow Leopard could be installed on it. I've used supposedly failed drives for years either by external USB or just closing the silly Windows Vista nag-boxes about it repeatedly. Very useful since in my experience "SMART" errors rarely correlate with actually defective drives. Well it turns out there is a little trick you can do to make Disk Utility "forget" about the annoying "S.M.A.R.T." bit flag. ![]() Some said that it can only be done on computers with "Disable SMART" option in BIOS. I searched the Internet for hours trying to find this elusive holy grail of computing. How to Install OSX 10.6 onto a HDD with "S.M.A.R.T failures" -Macbook A1181
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