PSE 2.0 using Windows 8 - Scratch Disk Full

I'm trying to install PSE 2.0 on a new computer using Windows 8 and I'm getting a message "Scratch Disk is full".  Can anyone help?

That's the problem, your hard drive is way too big to run photoshop elements 2.
You have only used less than 200 gb on that hard drive and the rest is free space (empty)
Photoshop elements 2 can't see all that empty space, because when it came out around 2002, pse 2 was never intended to work on hard drives bigger than 1TB, mainly
because of windows issues and hardly anybody had such large hard drives at the time.
Your best option is to find an older version of photoshop elements from pse 6 to pse 11 or buy the current version photoshop elements 12.

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    OK, I have now copied your hillbilly text and pasted it into a text editor to change the typeface so I can read it.
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