Photoshop Elements 2.0 Windows 7 Scratch Disks Full

Hello there,
I have seen a few posts about PSE2 on Windows 7, but none of them have helped get it working for me. Same deal, I run PSE2 and get the "Scratch disks full" message. I have a 1.5GB hard drive. I have tried everything and no luck on getting it working. Any new ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Here are some of the things i've had success with in older versions of photoshop (pse 2 or ps 7 and older versions) with hard drives bugger than 1tb.
The first two always work
1. Install windows xp mode if your version of windows 7 supports it.
2. Install an older operating system on vmware or virtualbox.
3. Run pse 2 as an administrator and press the Alt+Ctrl keys just after starting pse 2, and then set the scratch disk to the recovery partition on your hard drve.
4. add a second hard drive to use as the scratch disk for pse 2
5. Partition a part of your existing hard drve to use as the scratch disk for pse 2
6. Re install windows 7 on partition of 1tb and then partition the rest of the 500mb for storage of files
Added: You always have the option of buying photoshop elements 10 which has no problems with hard drives bigger than 1b.
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