cant run TESTDISK without Rosetta

[dogtide]

please help me...i am desperately trying to fix my lost MAC partition using TESTDISK but when i try to run it thru TERMINAL after booting up off the Snow Leopard system disk it tells me
"You need the Rosetta software to run testdisk. The Rosetta installer is in the optional installs on your MAC OS X installation disc"

Please help me. How can i get to that or get i to run? I have tried to do a google search to download it but to no avail.

 

[cwa107]

Unfortunately, I think you're SOL on this one. Rosetta is PPC emulation for programs that were designed to work on older PPC Macs. When Apple introduced 10.6 (Snow Leopard), they dropped support for PPC. Although you can install Rosetta on a full-scale, running version of OS X to try to run some of that old software, since your machine is booted from your 10.6 disc, it's in a static environment (i.e. you can't install anything).

My recommendation would be to either pick up something like Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro. I'm not familiar with TESTDISK, but it sounds like it's old and probably isn't designed to work with 10.6 anyway.

 

[cwa107]

If this is what you're referring to... TestDisk - CGSecurity , be aware that it can not recover HFS/HFS+ partitions, so it's useless anyway. Now, if it was a Linux or Windows partition you were trying to recover, that would be a different story.

 

[dogtide]

oh no...i thought i might have found a solution. I did read quite a few forums where people had used it to restore what i thought was their mac partition but i just cant get it to run on mine.

 

[cwa107]

oh no...i thought i might have found a solution. I did read quite a few forums where people had used it to restore what i thought was their mac partition but i just cant get it to run on mine.

Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't look like this tool supports HFS partitions (at least it's not mentioned in the list of filesystems it supports).

If I'm wrong on this, you could always download the Linux version, install it on a Linux live CD and run it that way.

 

[dogtide]

this page is the instructions for how to use

TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity

and it talks about running on a mac so that is why i figured it might work.

from the linux POV, at this stage i am happy to try anything. can you please explain a little more in details how to

"download the Linux version, install it on a Linux live CD"

i am WAAAAAAAY out of my depth on this one.

thanx in advance for your help.

 

[cwa107]

I really think you're barking up the wrong tree on this one. There's a lot of good partition recovery software for OS X. If your data is important to you, it might be worth it to invest in something like TechTool Pro, which is easy to use and multifaceted in its uses.