Adobe Photoshop 7 - Could not initialize photoshop because the scratch disks are full

Question

So I got a new computer, HP Pavilion HPE 8 1050, windows 7 but office xp 2000 (l love)

I installed the software and got:

I installed AP7 and got You currently have adobe photoshop's primary scratch and windows primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop’s primary Scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical drive

then when I rebooted the computer and started Photoshop I got:

Could not initialize photoshop because the scratch disks are full and it closed rendering my photoshop useless.

So I can not use it.

I removed it, rebooted and re-installed it and still the same

What do I do to make my Photoshop work?

Thanks

Tom56 · Answer

If you have windows 8 and you are trying to start Photoshop and you are getting this message "could not initialize PhotoShop elements because the scratch disk are full." you may be having the same problem I did. I have a 2 terabyte hard drive. It seems PhotoShop will not work in a system that has more that 1 terabyte free disk space. What I did was create a virtual hard disk big enough to allow my C drive to have less than 1 terabyte free disk space.

To do this press the windows button and c at the same time. A search screen will come up on the right side of screen. In the search space type in “create and format hard disk partitions”. Then click actions, then click create VHD, then in the locations space find your C drive. Then in the virtual hard disk space put in the amount that will allow your C drive to have a little less than 1 terabyte disk space. . In my case I put in .8. Then click VHDX. Then click fixed size. . Wait while the system creates the VGDX. This should not take long at all. Then click OK. You should be able to now use PhotoShop. I hope this helps.

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