Error message: "scratch discs are full".

I have just started using the above I cannot use the above because I get a message that says:- Cannot initialise photoshop because the scratch discs are full. I cannot get into the program to get to the edit menu to try an change the settings. Can anyone help
Alan

Hi Alan 12,
What operating system are you using?
How much space is left on your hard drive and what is the size of the hard drive that photoshop 7 is installed on?
The usual reason for that message on modern computers is that your hard drive has more than 1 TB of free space
and since photoshop 7 came out before such large hard drives were common, it can't read the large amount of
free space and gives the message about the scratch disk being full.
The best solution is to have photoshop 7 installed on a hard drive that has less than 1 TB of free space.
You might also try pressing the Alt+Ctrl keys just after clicking or double clicking on the photoshop 7 shortcut and keep
holding the keys until you get a dialog where you can choose another hard drive (or partition) for the scratch disk.

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