New boot drive - Photoshop will not launch

I recently cloned my boot drive onto an SSD, which I now use as my boot drive. Everything works fine except when I try to launch Photoshop, I get an error that says, "Could not intialize Photoshop because the disk is not available."
I have both CS6 through Creative Cloud, and CS5. Neither will launch and both give the same error message.
I tried searching for a similar problem on the forum, but I didn't see anything. If this has already been addressed somewhere, please point me in the right direction. Otherwise, any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am running Mac OS X 10.8, and I've repaired permissions several times on my new boot drive.
Thanks.

You could try resetting preferences by starting PS and immediately holding down Cmd + Option + Shift keys. You should get a reset window.
Some users get in trouble when files are moved from default settings after installation. Also, Bridge will not work if temp file is not on boot drive.
Don't know how the cloud works. Think it is installed on computer? If so if above does not work unistall and re-install might be next step.

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