Photoshop 7 Scratch Disc problem!

[Mick]

Hi all, Have just bought a new desktop computer with Win 7 home installed.

I set up the programs ok, until I got to Photoshop 7! It installed ok on my C drive and I started using it, but a scratch disc notice came up saying it was best to set another drive as the scratch disc drive.

The computer has a 2 TB hard disc at D.

Now Photoshop 7 will not open and reports the scratch disc is full, when there is 1.76 TB free.

Is uninstalling and re installing the only way out of this?

The computer system is: Novatech Black NTA31 Processor Description : AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Processor Cache 8MB Clock speed : 3.50Ghz Manufacturer :AMD No. of Cores :8 Memory Description : 4 X 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Memory Speed :1600Mhz

Hard Drive Description :120GB SSD Drive Hard drive Description : 2TB SATA

Ant thoughts welcomed, thanks, Mick.

[Mark]

Google!

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[Roger Mills]

I don't know how old Photoshop 7 is, but chances are that it was created in the days when disks were much smaller, and it isn't recognising the true size of your disk, and is probably only looking at the low-order bits in the available space counter. You can sometimes overcome this by putting some *additional* files on the disk in the hope that it will think that you have *increased* the available space (because it isn't reading it properly, if you see what I mean).

A safer option may be to create a new smaller partition (maybe 2GB or

8GB - depending on *how* old the program is) and assign that a drive letter - probably E unless that's already used for something else. Then use E (or whatever) as your scratch disk - and Photoshop should then read the available space correctly.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Mick escribió:

Ask in a group that doesn't have f*ck-all to do with computer problems?

[Ian Jackson]

In message , Mike Tomlinson writes

Although it may be slightly stretching what is considered on topic, you get a lot of good advice on computer problems in uk.diy. I'm presently updating/upgrading a 13 year-old XP PC (before the cut-off of support for XP), and it's certainly a DIY job.

[Mick]

Thank you Mark and Roger, for your help, I used both suggestions and all is now working ok. Mick.

[fred]

In article , Ian Jackson writes

Well, having asked for Mike T's support on a previous occasion in encouraging on-topic posting in this group[1] I can't help but reinforce the point that this is a classic wipe your own arse, answer available in

0.2s from google, type question that the aforementioned search engine was intended for.

It's a specialist question with an answer readily available on search, wipe own arse . . . . .

[1] actually the avoidance of TOT twatfest postings but that it another matter

[F Murtz]

At least he gets answers.