Why does CS4 hate my hard-drive?

Hi,
I'm running CS4 on OSX 10.4.11, PPC.
I have two 1TB drives in the box. The boot drive is cloned onto the second drive every 24h, so they are pretty much identical.
CS4 won't launch if I set the second drive as my primary scratch disk. I get errors saying "Disk is missing", "Cannot initialise", or words to that effect.
Does anyone have a clue why this is? I can't fathom it at all.
Both disks are formatted HFS+, Journaled.
Hope someone can help me :-)
Thanks! :-)
S

Buko,
Thanks for your response but it's not that. The disk is formatted HFS+ Jourrrnaled and not case sensitive.
S

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I copied over the program files from the original XP backup (which is what I did when I migrated to Windows 7)
I COULD get PS5 to work but now I'm receiving the 'program can't start because PCDLIB32.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.'
I reinstalled PS7 but receive 'NEFLibrary3PS.dll missing' when I start it up. Then another error message 'could not initialize PS because the scratch disks are full' (worked fine before the crash)
CS4 is giving me the following:
This product has encountered a problem which requires that you restart your computer before it can be launched (I did)
If you continue to see thismessage after restarting your computer, please contact either your IT administrator or Adobe technical support for help, and mention error code 6
I was cruising along just fine before the failure and it's been 10 days to get to this point.
What are my options now?
G

You can get the CS4 installer here.
http://prodesigntools.com/download-adobe-cs4-and-cs3-free-trials-here.html
Please follow the download instructions carefully or the download link won't work.
You could then run it and hope it detects your install. If it does, it should give you an option to repair it instead of reinstall.
Also if you registered your software with Adobe, your serial number can be found in your Adobe account under "my products."

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Templeton Peck:
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Also, I posted this up for the reason of which I would expect the people who read these know a little something about Mac/Apple Products (not necessarily about Mac formating but anything else really), So this question is technically about my MacBook for which my hard drive is MAC FORMATTED and that maybe theres a way for my MacBook to copy/past from my old hard drive which ISN'T Mac formatted (In saying that, I can just reformat my new one back IF there is a way for me to still copy/paste stuff off of it onto my MacBook).
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I bought a new MacBook Pro to replace an older MacBook Pro. I also bought a new Toshiba 1T portable hardrive to backup my new computer. The Toshiba hard drive will not mount on the new computer, but it will mount on my old computer.
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