Boot Manager and Partitioning Tool

BootIt Bare Metal

Version 1.92 made available on January 28, 2024

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.

BootIt® Bare Metal – Partition Manager

With today’s large hard drive sizes, proper partitioning and management is more important than ever. BootIt BM offers standard partitioning features as well as many special features not found elsewhere:

  • Compatible with all Windows versions (9x, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, 8, 10, Servers).
  • Compatible with x64 (AMD64/EM64T) and Windows 64bit OS.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • and much more…

BootIt® Bare Metal – Boot Manager

BootIt BM provides a full set of options for each boot item, giving the user an unequaled level of flexibility in configuring (non-UEFI) multi-boot systems:

  • Compatible with all Windows versions (9x, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, 8, 10, Servers).
  • Compatible with x64 (AMD64/EM64T) and Windows 64bit OS.
  • 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…
  • and much more…

BootIt® Bare Metal – Disk Imaging

Creating and restoring partition and disk images is a simple matter using the included full version of Image for DOS. Sporting a new graphical user interface, Image for DOS brings complete image file compatibility with TeraByte’s current imaging products (Image for Windows, Image for Linux, and Image for DOS) – a much requested feature. Launched directly from the BootIt BM desktop, accessing this powerful tool is a simple matter of a single mouse click or touch of a key:

  • Compatible with all Windows versions (9x, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, 8, 10, Servers).
  • Compatible with x64 (AMD64/EM64T) and Windows 64bit OS.
  • 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).

BootIt® Bare Metal – Scripting

BootIt Bare Metal (paid version) includes an enhanced version of the TeraByte OS Deployment Tool Suite Professional that includes the powerful TBScript engine. This offers you an almost unlimited number of solutions:

  • Automate partition creation, deletion, sliding, copying, and resizing.
  • Automate disk image backups or restores.
  • Use existing .TBS scripts to prepare Windows to run on different hardware.
  • Access files in supported partitions.
  • Explore and change OS configuration files.
  • And so much more…

TeraByte Unlimited has been a leading innovator of advanced multi-boot software since the mid-1990s. Click to see a quick history of BootIt®

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