On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:00:09AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> The entire disk; Should I re-try the ddrescue with the slice only?
>>
>> As I just sent to the list:
>> [root at server /]# mount_ntfs -o loop /mount/archive/da-harddrive/80gb.drive /mount/drive1
>> mount_ntfs: -o loop: option not supported
>
> Apologies for stating the obvious, but this is the TCLUG:  the
> options and flags you were provided are appropriate for Linux - you
> did not state explicitly, but I suspect you are running them on a
> FreeBSD host, which would explain the results being less than
> satisfactory.

I was coming to the same conclusion.
Might I suggest downloading the latest Backtrack Linux iso and booting
from that?  It comes with most of the tools you could possibly want
preinstalled.
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/
- Justin