I am not posting this as the 'solution' since its more of a workaround than a solution/fix, but thank you for at least getting it working again for me till Adobe applies a actual 'update/fix' for the issue. How about a Update/Patch for those of us with PS7 (or those of us that can't afford to 'upgrade' to a newer version of Photoshop) m, that would allow PS7 to recognize a larger drive (say up to 4tb for example), so we can use it without this frustration, Photoshop should have been remedied of this 'known' issue, long agoīut thanks to your help i am now able to use it again, but i would hope for a real fix to be applied as this is a known and frustrating issue OK, i had to restart my PC to finish some Windows updates, and after restarting, i tried to set the Scratch Disk location, and it seemed to work this time, i reset it to E Drive, instead of C, and Photoshop opened up without the error and is usable now, the main issue i have with this is that this is a 'work around' not really a 'fix' for the error/issue When the memory space allocated to Photoshop is used up, the scratch disk will be used as additional memory, so you can increase the memory space of Photoshop to solve the problem that the scratch disk is full.

Try.a uninstall utility from the manufacturer to get ALL files gone and then try reinstalling.I just tried what you said, and i chose the other drive that it works on ,(i went from C drive to E drive for 'First' Startup), and it gave the exact same error, but yet if i were to boot to that drive Photoshop works perfect If the evil file in question (LOL) remained corrupted on the registry regardless of using the provided uninstall utility, then reinstalling the application would not work as this file would not be overwritten with the non-corrupted version, but be bypassed in the re-install because, heck the file was already there, wasn't it? Anyway, I don't know what he really did, but I do know that I have to Run as Administrator still and I didn't have to before, but I am not messing with it. the scratch disk section used by Photoshop is full and contains many temporary files due to incorrect shutdown the limited RAM allowed for Photoshop was filled with the cache since the program was unable to erase the cache automatically.

I have heard that sometimes when you uninstall, not all files get uninstalled. I suspect that he was correct to some extent. He said that he used a way better uninstall tool than provided with my system to ensure all files were GONE. I am not sure what he did, but he said that it was a corrupt file on the registry. BTW, Staples guy said 2TB was not the problem. I suspect that something went wrong with the cloning or that during an abrupt shutdown, a file on the registry became corrupted. I had my apps and data cloned over to the new HD. I had a HD failure, they only had a 2TB hard drive available (mine was a 1TB).

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