Question 1: yes speed clone can be put on a bootable CD. We have an ISO file that we send after purchase. As far as thumb drives go, that is a good question. Since the floppy version is an .exe and the cd version is an iso, if your thumbdrive can boot i.e san disk cruzer lock, than you should be able to run the .exe, but I will forward this to Jacqui Best who is the software tech person. You can also call her on Saturday at 727-345-9665 and hit the option for software tech support. She is the one who would be sending you the files anyway.

Question 2:
You can absolutely slave a SATA drive. And like you said, the critical part is in knowing which drive is which. If you are going off of a motherboard then there will be a disk 0 and a disk 1, you will need to check which is which on the board itself. If you are using a SATA card it is pretty much the same, you will need to figure out which port is which drive. Within SpeedClone it will show the drive header, so if they are from different manufacturers you would know that.

It is absolutely critical to know this info since if you hook it up backwards it will clone the new drive overwriting the old drive with 0’s

Your articles all talk about slaving drives, am I correct in assuming this is only in the IDE world, and SATA drives will be configured differently? I imagine the only trick with SATA will be ensuring you are absolutely sure of Source and Target, perhaps being careful by watching drive types or labels?

Thank you in advance for both my questions.

Can SpeedClone be run from a bootable CDRom? Floppy Drives are becoming as rare as hens’ teeth.

For that matter, how about a bootable USB thumbdrive?