PS won't initialize, can't find scratch disk

Suddenly, when launching either PS4 or PS6, I get "Could not open a scratch file because the disk is not available." So I click the OK button and I get "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available." Then PS shuts down without launching. I have the scratch disk set up as an external HD via Firewire 800 on an iMac, OS 10.7.5. The external disk shows up on my desktop, and reads and writes normally.
I did have a power glitch earlier today, causing everything to shut off, i.e., a hard shut down, so that is quite possibly the problem. If I turn off the external HD, and relaunch PS, it opens fine, both CS4 and CS6, and in the Performance Preference, the external HD of course does not show up. If I turn the external back on, PS will not launch. So, for some reason PS cannot now find the external, but every other function on the computer can find the external, including SuperDuper backup software. I'm figuring I need to trash a preference file, but don't know which one or where it might be. I did use the Mac Disk Utility to "repair" the external HD, and it found no problems. Any ideas?

Most likely you have a "ghost" mountpoint for that drive.
Check in /volumes/... and I suspect you'll have two directories for that volume name.
The second one will most likely be the real one, and the first is the ghost (a real directory on your disk instead of a mount point).
Also, this is one of the reasons why it's not a good idea to use an external drive for scratch.

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