PS7 and Scratch Disk Full, using XP SP3 with 1 HD... how to fix?

I've searched the forum, yet couldn't find an answer or fix...  I installed my old PS7 on my new computer running XP with SP3 on a dualcore Intel, 1.5T HD (only one drive), 3Gb of RAM-- not enough money to upgrade PS, computer took first dibs...  PS7 refuses to open - after booting, comes up with a pop-up error stating the Scratch Disk is full, then shuts down.
My old system (W-2000, 20Gb single HD, with 1.8 Pentium processor, 1Gb of RAM) worked perfectly with PS7 - never had any problems...
I've tried all fixes possible...  HD is not even close to fragmented as is a new drive; not enough programs installed yet, or use on machine, for disk clean-up to be necessary; forced creation of the preference file (changed name to .old); and did the ctrl-alt-shift to boot to defaults.  No idea what is going on or why it would say scratch disk full.

Uaphil wrote:
Actually, there are no partitions on my drive.  (I didn't realize PS needed a different drive or partition)  My old computer and HD didn't have partitions either, and worked perfectly.
Could it be an issue with PS7 and the size of the HD?  If so, is there a patch for this?
The point isn't that Photoshop needs different drives or partitions but that, as you suggest, the old PS 7 has problems with drives much bigger than were imagined in the days it was written.
However there are advantages in having the the scratch disk on a separate physical drive from the system drive where the paging file normally resides.

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