well my c: drive is almost filled up so PS is saying it cant start and i get this popup. i change all the disks to e:/ which has plenty of space. then PS starts loading up some more then it says whats in the next pic, it cant utilize it and it exits. then the next time i load up PS it does this all over again...

1) What version of Photoshop are you using?

2) Why is your C: full? It's really bad for your disk to have less than 10% free space... Resize that sucker with Acronis Disk Director to give your system some more breathing room.

1. cs2

2. ya i already did resize it with acronis, now my c: drive is 4 gigs

4Gigs? That's hardly enough really... Everything about your system running should be on the system partition, and all other files should be on another.

I keep my windows partition at 5 GB or less so its image sizes are small and the backup/restore process is fast (about 1 minute).

I keep all the other programs and data on other partitions. Been computing like that for a few years now and wouldnt go back

Are the partitions FAT32? If they are, you probably have a major amount of lost clusters!

You must make sure that Windows is shut down properly!

You can't blame him for already filling up his hard drive. He only has 80GB and with it partitioned, the C: drive has even less space. There's nothing you can do except for freeing up more space on C: as the "Startup Disk" is always your first (might have been system) partition.

I keep all the other programs and data on other partitions. Been computing like that for a few years now and wouldnt go back

You also use a lot of programs that are standalone - which isn't the case for most people.

5GB is nowhere near enough nowdays, mines set to 15GB, Also when your imaging your disc it doesnt image the entire thing, it images jsut the space used. my full disc image compressed is 900MB using Acronis True Image, uncompressed is 3.2GB.

You also use a lot of programs that are standalone - which isn't the case for most people.

well that is true, but you can also set %ProgramFiles% to another partition letter with WINNT.SIF

[Unattended]
ProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files"
CommonProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files\Common Files"

You also use a lot of programs that are standalone - which isn't the case for most people.

well that is true, but you can also set %ProgramFiles% to another partition letter with WINNT.SIF

[Unattended]
ProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files"
CommonProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files\Common Files"

and that is exactly what i do in nlite. my e: drive is for all of my programs and other crap. my c: drive is just for windows and some extra space for whatever programs need to install stuff on there to run. so i dont see what you are all yelling about.

Did you try setting the first scratch disk to E and the rest to NONE?

well its fine now. it wouldnt let me change the drive when it gave that error. i could only change the drive when there was enough space. its just some stupid bug.