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