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Hi.
Last night my system crashed and am trying to recover my data using testdisk

I downloaded,unzipped Mac OS X Intel version of testdisk and tried executing through terminal. I'm getting "Illegal Intruction 4" error when i try to execute testdisk.

Can some one please suggest me what should i do to pass this error message??

./testdisk
Illegal Intruction 4

Getting same "Illegal instruction: 4" error in Terminal in Mountain Lion recovery mode.

Cannot proceed. Any suggestions?

Partition map is only intended to old Apple Power PC and not Intel.
If you have an Intel Mac you should use EFI GPT instead.

Fiona

Thanks for the reply.

I don't even get a chance to enter "EFI GPT" for the partition type. The program doesn't execute.

Unless you're referring to running the powerpc binary as opposed to the intel. I correctly downloaded the intel one (http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-7.0- ... el.tar.bz2). Could the 'testdisk' binary in that tarball be for the wrong architecture? Here's the output from 'file':

$file testdisk
testdisk: Mach-O executable i386

Currently I've no Mac available to test it.
I'll forward it to Christophe Grenier.
In the meantime, could you try testdisk 6.14?

Fiona

Oops, I pasted the wrong link. 6.14 is the one I tried. I'll try 7.0 when I get home tonight.

Nope, 7.0 also gives the same error for me.

BTW, photorec also gives the same error (in both versions).

FYI, when I'm in recovery mode on the macbook pro, I see in a log file that this is 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion). So, even though Mavericks was last installed, it was originally shipped with ML.

I'll report your problem today.

Fiona

A side question - I read a comment somewhere that SSD's behave differently from a standard disk drive when a partition is deleted. As in, being able to recover it with data recovery tools will be more difficult, if not impossible. Can anyone comment?

Just trying to judge how much it is worth it to try to restore this laptop.

Count me as another user getting Illegal Instruction: 4. Same results running testdisk with no flags or with something like /list. Any word from Christophe?