Manage your partitions, install and boot multiple operating systems with ease, back up and restore partitions or entire drives – all this and more, using BootIt Bare Metal. Taking its roots from its highly successful predecessor, BootIt Next Generation, BootIt BM has been developed from the beginning to provide a powerful set of tools for today’s computer users, enthusiasts, and professionals.Features:Partition Manager:· Supports MBR, EMBR and GPT type partitioning.· Direct support for PATA/SATA (AHCI) drives.· Create, move, copy, delete, and undelete partitions.· Optionally, wipe a partition when deleted.· Non-destructive resizing of FAT/FAT32, NTFS, and Linux Ext2/3/4 partitions.· Create over 200 primary partitions on EMBR disks.· Specify unlimited primary partitions on a per-drive basis.· Convert between MBR, EMBR and GPT type disks.· Easily enforce Windows 7 partition alignment standards.· Complete control over drive geometry.· Directly edit the Windows BCD store to fix booting errors – no Windows DVD required!· Edit small text files on any supported partition, even those hidden from Windows.· Supports hard drives beyond 16 exabytes in size.Boot Manager:· Boot any partition on any hard drive (up to 16), including logical volumes.· Boot multiple operating systems from a single partition.· Supports hiding/unhiding partitions, “swapping” of drives, and partition table order for each boot item.· Automatically detects existing operating systems upon installation and adds them to the boot menu.· Use the Direct Boot Menu to boot directly into any partition, bypassing the normal boot menu.· Customize and secure the computer with user IDs and passwords.· Support booting to Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, and more...Disk Imaging:· Compatible with Linux file systems.· Create backup images of single partitions, multiple partitions, or entire drives.· Quickly recover from drive failure, corruption or data loss by restoring an image or extracting the data from a backup.· Migrate to a new drive by restoring an image or by copying (cloning) the original drive. Optionally, expand existing partitions to utilize a larger drive.· Support for both internal and external drives (including USB 2.0, IEEE1394, and eSATA).