How To Format The Hard disk By Disk Manager?

Be ready with Bootable C.D and Disk Manager Software(DM) on the same C.D. I Have DM version 9.46(only single floppy). This version formats any disk whether it is Seagate or Samsung or any other one. DM versions below 10 can format up to disk sizes of 40 GB. By using disk manager 10 Plus version we can format High Capacity disks also. Now latest is disk manager 10.45. Later I will tell about 10.45(two floppy's needed). In Seagate site we can get free disk manager 10.45 software. But it formats only Seagate harddisks. For formatting other disks you have to use disk manager 10 Plus versions for those disks. You can get Samsung version disk manager 10.42 from Samsung site freely. For other company disks you have to get disk manager 10 plus versions from those company Websites.

Now I am telling how to format the hard disk using disk manager 9.46 version. Start the Computer. While booting press DEL key then the system automatically goes to CMOS Settings. Select “Advanced Bios Features” and press enter. Select “First Boot Device” and choose CD ROM. Then press F10 key(For save and exit setup) and save CMOS Settings. Now the system is ready to boot from C.D Rom.

Put the Bootable C.D in C.D drive and restart the system. Then system will boot from C.D. Select “Boot from C.d.Rom” and press enter. Select “Start computer with CD Rom support” and press enter. Then computer will go to A:\> Prompt.

Change from A:\> to C.D Drive Prompt.
Example:
A:\>F: press enter (Here F is my C.D drive.). Then it goes to C.D drive prompt like below.
F:\>
By CD command(change directory command) change to DM directory like this.
F:\>CD DM press enter. Now
F:\DM>
Now run DM exe file. If your hard disk is Seagate just type “DM”. If your harddisk is other than Seagate then type “DM/X” like below.
F:\DM>DM/X press enter

Now disk manager runs on the screen. Press enter to continue. It will display “Have you already run the disk wizard software?” Choose NO then press enter. Now choose Advanced options. Choose Advanced disk installation. It will display “disk manager found 1 drive YES or NO”. Choose YES. Then it will display “disk manager format hard disk using the 32 bit FAT choose yes or no”. Choose YES.

Now select a partition option. Select “Option(C) Define your own”. Now give the partition sizes. My Hard disk is 10 GB. So I used 3 partitions C 6 Gb, D 1 Gb, E 3 Gb. After giving partition sizes choose “Save and continue” then press enter. Then it will give two options:
1. Press ALT-C to continue
2. Press any key to cancel
Press Alt-C. Then it will display “Fast format(yes or no)”. Choose YES. Leave the default cluster values. Now it will display“Erase all data on this disk (yes or no)?”. Choose Yes. Then disk manager will format my hard disk into 3 partitions as per the sizes given by me. After formatting completed it will display “Press reset or Control-Alt-Del when ready”. Also it displays “remove any C.D's,Diskettes in drives”.

So first remove bootable C.D. Then press Control-Alt-Del. Then computer will restart and come to command prompt C:\> So now you learnt how to format harddisk.

Upto 40 Gb Hard disks you can format them using disk manager 9.46 software. If you want to format 80 Gb hard disks you can format them using windows xp Installation disk itself or by using disk manager 10 plus versions. Later I will post article regarding that also.

How can you format Any Hard disk larger than 80 GB?

We can format any hard disk with Windows XP C.D irrespective of it's size and manufacturer.

First goto CMOS Setup then select Boot Device priority as C.D.ROM. Then keep Win XP C.D in CD Drive then restart the system. After restarting, it asks Press any key to boot from C.D. Then press any key. Then setup inspects your computer configuration and it takes time.

After inspection is over setup will start ,press enter to continue. Then press F8 to agree the end user license. Then setup will shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on your computer.

If suppose your HDD is new one with 40 GB. Then setup shows only unpartitioned space on your computer that is approximately 38201 MB. So to create a partition press C. Then it will ask the size of the partition. Suppose you have given 8000 MB,then press enter. Then It will create partition C for you. Then it shows 30200 MB as unpartitioned space. Now select unpartitioned space then again press C for creating second partition. Suppose you have again given 8000 MB as size then press enter. Then it will create partition D for you. Again select unpartitioned space then again press C for creating third partition. This time you have given the remaining 22191 MB as size and then press enter. Then it will create third partition E. So now you have totally 3 partitions. Still it shows 8 MB unpartitioned space. But we can not create fourth partition with 8 MB. So leave it.

Now we have 3 partitions with sizes 8000MB,8000MB,22191MB respectively. All these are RAW harddisk partitions. Now select partition C for installing Win XP then press enter. After installation of Win XP there are only two RAW harddisk partitions. They are D and E partitions. So after installing Win XP double click my computer. Then right click D drive and select Format then select File system FAT32 then click start. Then it will format D drive. Similarly format E drive also. Now you learnt how to format harddisk of size greater than 80 GB.

Windows XP installation

After formatting the hard disk, kept the win xp cd in cd-drive and restart the system. Then it will boot from win xp c.d and it displays “press any key to boot from cd”. So press any key. Then setup will first inspect your system. After sometime welcome to setup screen comes. Press enter to continue. Then license agreement screen will come. Press F8 to agree. Then it will show existing partitions. Already C is selected as primary partition. So press enter to install win xp in C drive. Then it will give 6 options. Select “leave the current file system intact(no changes)”. Then press enter then setup will starts. After some installation computer will restart. Just before restarting it will show message“remove any diskettes in drives”. Then remove c.d from the drive and restart the computer. Then the computer again installing files after restart. Now again put the cd in cd drive while installation is going on.

After some windows xp installation it will show “Regional and language options”. Just click next. Now it will ask your name and organization. Give the details and click next. Now give the product key and click next. It will ask computer name and password. Give the name and click next. Then give the Time Zone settings,Date & time settings then click next. Then it will install network card software. After some time it will show network settings. Select typical settings and click next. It will ask workgroup. If your computer is on a network then give your workgroup name and click next. Again installation is going on. After some windows xp installation it will again restarts.

Now welcome to Microsoft windows screen come. Click next. Then computer will check for internet connectivity of your computer and gives two options 1. DSL 2. LAN. Choose your appropriate option and give IP address,Subnet mask,Gateway etc., details and click next. Then it will come to registration screen. Registration is optional. So choose whatever option you like and click next. Then it will asks your name and also names of users to this computer. Give those details and click next. Finish screen come. Click finish.
So you just completed windows xp installation.

How to configure Bsnl Broadband internet connection to single computer and to multiple computers for any Windows O.S ?

Bsnl Broadband configuration to single computer:
The department will do all the wiring connectons of ADSL modem,Splitter etc. I will roughly tell about the wiring connections we have to do for getting internet.

My modem is Huawei Smart Ax MT 880. Spiltter is common to all. Now I will roughly tell the wiring connections.

On the back panel of Huawei MT 880 you can observe power suppy point,power on/off button,ethernet port and adsl port.

Splitter has two ports on one side. From one of the ports connect a RJ-11 Telephone cable to adsl port of the Modem. From the second port connect a RJ-11 Telephone cable to our phone instrument.

Splitter has another port on other side. From this port connect a RJ-11 telephone cable to RJ-11 socket.

Connect LAN cable from Ethernet port of Modem to Ethernet port of your computer. Give power supply to modem through the adaptor.

P.C configuration:
Right click My Network Places(In Windows XP My Network Places,In win98 Network Neighbourhood) then select properties. You will get Local Area Connection properties like this.

Double click Internet Protocol(TCP/IP). Then you will get TCP/IP properties like this.

Select Use the following IP Address and set the IP address to 192.168.1.x(x is any number between 2 to 255). I have entered IP Address as 192.168.1.7 Now enter Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0,Default gateway 192.168.1.1,Preferred DNS server 61.1.96.69,Alternate DNS server 218.248.255.145.
Note: For Preferred DNS server you can also use 192.168.1.1 instead of 61.1.96.69.

Click OK.

Huawei MT 880/MT 882 CPE Configuration:
Open internet explorer and type the url http://192.168.1.1 then press enter. You will get like this on the screen.

Type user name admin and password also admin then click OK. Then you will get Smart AT 880 window like this.

On the left panel click on HOME then click WAN Setting. You will get window like this.

Now locate the parameter Wan Type then select PPP.
Select connection type as PPPOE.
Select the Default Route Enabled.
Enter the User Name and Password provided by Bsnl.
Click on Apply.
Click on DNS then enter Primary DNS Address 61.1.96.69 and Secondary DNS Address 218.248.255.145 as below.

Next On left panel select Tools then select System Setting. Click on Save & Restart as shown below.

You have completed your Modem Configuration for bsnl broadband internet. It is so simple. Any one can do it.

On the left panel if you click Summary then you will observe Green light glowing telling the status of PPPOE like this.

How to share the internet connection among more than one Computer?

Just connect LAN cable from Ethernet port of ADSL Modem to a HUBs first port instead of P.C. All P.C's will be connected to Hub through LAN cables. Configure TCP/IP Settings in all the P.C's with IP address in the range(192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.255),Default Gateway as 192.168.1.1,Subnet Mask as 255.255.255.0,Preferred DNS server as 61.1.96.69,Alternate DNS server as 218.248.255.145. Remember one important thing that is all computers in LAN must have same workgroup. So set Unique workgroup to all of the computers in the LAN

NOTE: The above configuration settings are same in all Windows operating systems. No PPPOE software is required even for win98 also. So you can configure win98 also as above for internet.

I have explained configuration of Huawei MT882/MT 800 models only. Now I will Briefly explain the configuration of other ADSL Modems. Configuration of other models is also same as above with slight difference.

Dare Global DB 108 ADSL Modem Configuration:

Open the browser and enter the url http://192.168.1.1. Enter user name admin,password admin in login window. Next click on WAN on left panel. Look for the connection with VPI 0 and VCI 35 (pvc-0-35) then click on EDIT button. Then follow the configuration wizard. Select connection type as PPPOE. Enter Dataone user name and password. Click on next and complete the wizard. Finally click on Reboot button on left panel.

Huawei WA1003A Wi-Fi ADSL Modem configuration:

Open the browser and enter the url http://192.168.1.1. Enter user name admin,password admin in login window. Next click on SETUP on menu bar and then click on PVC0 on left panel. Now select the connection type as PPPOE. Enter your dataone user name and password and click on APPLY.

Wi-Fi security Configuration:
Click on ADVANCED on menu bar then select Wireless Security. Select WEP and tick the check box Enable wep Security. Enter the encryption key. You have to enter only hexadecimal numbers 1,2....9,a,b,c,d,e,f and click on Apply. Now click on TOOLS on menu bar ,select System Commands then click on Save all.

Huawei MT 841 ADSL Modem configuration:

Open the browser and enter the url http://192.168.1.1. Enter user name admin,password admin in login window. Click on Basic next Connections on left panel. If you are configuring the modem first time then you have to delete the existing PVC0. For doing this click on EDIT icon(this icon is in the column Note),then scroll down the page and click on delete.

Now click on NEW then enter VPI/VCI value as 0/35,then enter dataone username and password. Click on APPLY. Save the configuration by clicking on Save All on left panel.

Wi-Fi security Configuration:
Click on WLAN on left panel then select WEP. Enter the 13 digit WEP key. You have to enter only hexadecimal numbers 1,2....9,a,b,c,d,e,f and click on Apply. Save the configuration by clicking on Save All.

Huawei MT 800 ADSL Modem configuration:

Open the browser and enter the url http://192.168.1.1. Enter user name admin,password admin in login window. Select and click on ATM Settings on left panel. Locate the parameter Connection Type and select PPP. In the next line select PPPOE. Scroll down the page then enter dataone user name and password and click on Submit. Click on Save & Reboot on left panel. First select Save and click on Submit. Next select Reboot and click on Submit again.

Note: We have configured Wi-Fi Security feature in Huawei WA 1003A and Huawei MT 841 Modems. We have to configure Wi-Fi Security feature in the P.C also. We can configure like this.

Wi-Fi configuration in PC:

Open properties of Wi-Fi Connection in PC. Select the tab Wireless Networks then select the Wi-Fi network name(normall modem model name is the network name) then click on properties. Look for field Data encryption and network ID,select WEP as Data Encryption and enter the network ID which you have entered in ADSL Modem configuration as encryption key.

Bsnl Broadband(Dataone) Internet connection Details

For Bsnl broadband connection customer requires Bsnl landline phone,Computer with operating system Linux/win98/winnt/win2000/win xp or higher. You will get maximum speed from Win XP with memory greater than 64 mb. Your computer must have LAN card.

The department supply one ADSL Technology Modem(also called CPE),Splitter,LAN cable,a small RJ-11 Telephone cable and modem adapter. Generally when internet is coming from landline phone then there is noise in the line. So we can not talk with others,cannot receive calls when net is coming from the phone. When we use splitter we can talk with others,can receive calls,when net is coming from the phone. Splitter cancels the noise in the line and separates Voice and Data signals so that we can use the same internet phone for receiving calls and for making calls to others.

Generally bsnl supplies the following CPEs(Modems)
Type 1: Huawei MT 800, Huawei MT 880, Huawei MT 882,DareGlobal DB 108 models. All these models have one Ethernet port and one USB port.

Type 2: Huawei WA1003A. This model has one Ethernet port,one USB port and Wi-Fi module for security purposes.

Type 3: Huawei MT 841. This model has four Ethernet ports,one USB port.

Type 4: Huawei MT 841 with Wi-Fi. This model has four Ethernet ports,one USB port and Wi-Fi module for security purposes.

Bsnl Broadband is based on ADSL Technology. It uses PPPOE protocol for authentication and accounting the user access. The ADSL Modem supplied by bsnl is a multifeatured powerful router. This ADSL Modem can be configured in two modes.

Bridge Mode:
All ADSL Modems by default come with Bridge Mode setting. This is factory's default setting. All these modems uses PPPOE protocol. So we have to install PPPOE client software on our P.C. This software is inbuilt with Windows XP. So for Windows XP systems we need not require this software. But for Other operating systems we require this software. Some PPPOE client softwares are available on the internet for free.

PPPOE Router Mode:
In this mode there is no need to install PPPOE client software on our P.C. This software is inbuilt in modem. In order to get internet we have to give some settings in ADSL Modem and also we have to give some settings to TCP/IP properties of our P.C. In my next article(Bsnl Broadband Configuration) I will clearly explain those settings to you. It is very simple. You can also do the settings to your P.C after reading that article.

In PPPOE Router mode the modem works as a Router and the PPPOE session terminates on WAN port of Router(For understanding Router please read my article “Local Area Network” under NETWORKING section in the same blog). In this mode we can use the advanced features of Router and powerful diagnostic tool for trouble shooting the connection problem. This mode has got all the advanced features like Firewall,IP Address lists,VPN Pass through,NAT,Port Forwarding.

Bsnl Broadband Tariff details:
The following charges are common to all home and business users.

Registration Fees: Rs 100

Installation Charges: Rs 250

Type I Modem Rs 1200,Type II Modem Rs 1800,Type III Modem Rs 1200,Type -IV Modem Rs 1800

Note: Telephone rental as usual.

Home Plans:

Start Up Plan 250:
Bandwidth: 256 Kbps
Monthly charges: Rs 250
Download/upload Limit per Month: 1 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.90
Security Deposit: NIL
Night Unlimited(0200-0800 Hrs): Not available

Home 500 Plan:
Bandwidth: 256 Kbps
Monthly charges: Rs 500
Download/upload Limit per Month: 2.5 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.80
Security Deposit: NIL
Night Unlimited(0200-0800 Hrs): YES

Home 1000 Plan:
Bandwidth: 384 Kbps
Monthly charges: Rs 1000
Download/upload Limit per Month: 5 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.80
Security Deposit: One Month plan charges
Night Unlimited(0200-0800 Hrs): YES

Home UL 900:
Bandwidth: 256 Kbps
Monthly charges: Rs 900
Download/upload Limit per Month: Unlimited
Security Deposit: One Month plan charges

Business Plans:

Business 700 plan:
Bandwidth: 256 Kbps
Single/Multi user: SU
Monthly charges: Rs 700
Download/upload Limit per Month: 4 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.80
Security Deposit: One Month rental

Business 1200 plan:
Bandwidth: 256 Kbps
Single/Multi user: SU
Monthly charges: Rs 1200
Download/upload Limit per Month: 8 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.80
Security Deposit: One Month rental

Business 3000 plan:
Bandwidth: 512 Kbps
Single/Multi user: MU
Monthly charges: Rs 3000
Download/upload Limit per Month: 20 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.50
Security Deposit: One Month rental

Business 5000 plan:
Bandwidth: 1 Mbps
Single/Multi user: MU
Monthly charges: Rs 5000
Download/upload Limit per Month: 35 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.50
Static IP Address(on request): ONE
Web hosting space(on request): 5 MB
Domain Name(on request): ONE
Security Deposit: One Month rental

Business 9000 plan:
Bandwidth: 2 Mbps
Single/Multi user: MU
Monthly charges: Rs 9000
Download/upload Limit per Month: 75 GB
Additional usage charges/MB: Rs 0.50
Static IP Address(on request): ONE
Web hosting space(on request): 5 MB
Domain Name(on request): ONE
Security Deposit: Rs 5000

Most Important Facts you have to remember:

Any data transfer whether it is browsing,mail.chat,voice etc, is counted as download and similarly upload also.

With 1 GB(1024 MB) download limit we can do the following:

An average web page is about 50 kb in size. So we can visit 20,000 web pages for 1GB.

An hour of web surfing will be around 10 MB(with out any other downloads from those pages). So we can surf for 100 Hrs for 1 GB.

An hour of streamed radio will use about 15-20 MB.

An hour of streamed Video will use about 100-150 MB.

An hour of Online game will use about 10-15 MB

We can send 100000 e-mails(without any attachments) for 1 GB limit.

We can download around 350-500 High resolution images(each 2 t0 3 MB size) or 350-500 MP3 Music files for 1 GB limit.

How to make a network printer?

Start the computer to which printer is connected. Swich on the printer also. Now from control panel select “printers and other hardware”. Now select printers & faxes. Now you will find your printer icon here. Right click on the printer icon. You will notice sharing option. Click sharing. Now click “if you understand the security risks but want to share printers without running the wizard,click here”. Now click “just enable printer sharing”. Now click “share this printer”. Then a name appears in share name box. Remember that name. Now click apply then click o.k. Now your printer is ready for sharing on the network. Now hand symbol appears under the printer icon.

Now for connecting this printer to another computer on the same network,first on that client computer. Then Click the start button and open printers and faxes. Then you will find “Add a printer” wizard on the top left corner of the window. Click add a printer. Then click next. Select “a network printer,or a printer attached to another computer” radio button. Now click next. Select “browse for a printer” radio button. Click next. Then in that screen you will find the name of the main computer to which printer is connected. Just double click that. Then you will find the printer name. Select that name and click next. It will give a message “Would you like to continue? Yes or NO”. Click YES. Now click finish. Now printer icon is available in the client computer also. You can give print command from this computer also.