Ok, thanks. I will consider it - I just don't have the hardware necc. to do this at the moment without stopping all my work in its tracks... Thank you, everyone!

On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Justin Kremer wrote:

> 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
> 
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