Cannot Uncheck CS3 Scratch DisK Selection Box

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p645n
Sep 10, 2008
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I’m running CS3 on a fairly recent 5 SATA hard drive XP machine. The drives are not raid arrays — each drive partitioned into one or two partitions is seperate.
I presently have a 20GB Partition for my Photoshop Scratch Disk. The partition named "S" sits on a physical drive that does not contain Photoshop or my XP System Data.
I recently purchased a couple of 1TB drives. The new drives are faster then my present drives because of areal density. Therefor I’ve created a 20 GB partition on one of the new drives for a Photoshop Scratch Disk.
Finally here comes my question:
Going to Edit>Preferences>Performance I attempted to uncheck my old Scratch Disk as I no longer wanted it active. Photoshop will not allow me to do this. I can check & uncheck my new Scratch Disk. I can not boot into safe mode & attempt to uncheck the box as that terrible Flexnet Licensing does not allow Photoshop to run.
I can not reformat the "S" drive with Windows — it appears Photoshop is preventing that operation.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks in advance!

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Michael_D_Sullivan
Sep 10, 2008
Trashing your preferences will reset the scratch file setting. Once you have it right and set up your other preferences, save a backup copy!
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Freeagent
Sep 10, 2008
Just to cover the basics – is the new drive initialized? You can’t format until then.

Also – you can’t uncheck one scratch drive unless there’s at least one other checked.
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p645n
Sep 10, 2008
"Just to cover the basics…you can’t uncheck one scratch drive unless there’s at least one other checked."

Oh No! — I’m that STOOPID!

Freeagent — thanks that was the problem. After activating my new scratch disk I could THEN UNCHECK my old one.

Thanks to both you & Michael for taking the time to help — Best to both of you.

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