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I have a Terastation Pro 2 WSS that I've been using pretty much out of the box configuration. It came configured with a 30GB OS (C) partition and a 1.7 TB Data (D) partition on the Mirrored RAID. Over time, installing WSS regular updates, and installing two minor apps, like Powerchute for UPS support, Adobe Acrobat reader, and a small remote access client, my OS partition has only 730 MB free. I've reduced the size of the Page file to 1.5 GB, but I'm out of space.

I sent a support request to Buffalo for help in understanding the best way to increase the OS partition size, but I've received no response. Nada. Zip. Nice. Will likely be the last Buffalo Tech product I buy, unless I can get this figured out. I 'would' back up the unit, repartition, and restore, but that's a little hard without a monitor port and remote access is your only option. Even a CD-bootable-based backup option is not feasible (assuming I could get the USB CD drive to work upon bootup). I'm not really up to rebuilding this unit from scratch just to correct poor planning on the part of Buffalo configuration engineers.

So, here I am, looking for some help from other users who have gone before me in the world of unsupported computer HW. If anyone out there has any experience expanding an OS partition on one of these WSS products, please, PLEASE, let me know.

Thanks in advance.
Shane

 >:( so still nada from Buffalo email tech support, and apparently everyone else has given up on Buffalo too and don't even visit the forums. That'll be the LAST Buffalo product I'll ever buy.

Hrmm... somethings wrong here...

Have you tried running something like CCleaner? Cleared out the error reports?
I know on a WSS (non-buffalo) unit I had worked on prior an error log for some hardware driver missing was generated daily, damn things took up 40GB of space! I had to hunt them down and manually delete them! Froze up the error logs UI :Z

Go go WinBLOWS!

*you probably wont read this, but at least its here for others!