Cannot open Photoshop saved the RAW file in Photoshop...

I got back from my school library, where I was using one of the scanners to scan my negatives. I scanned the files directly in photoshop CS3. In hindsight, I would have absolutely saved in tiff format, which has worked before, but this time I saved the files in raw. It is Photoshop raw, not Camera Raw. I assumed that I could open these files on my computer at home (Photoshop CS4), but apparently I was wrong. If I try to open raw files, I get a dialog box called "Photoshop Raw Options" and if I tap 'OK', it tells me something about missing color profiles, so I give myself a picture of grey noise. If I change the settings in the dialog box (the files have been saved to 16-bit grayscale with Mac byte order), I thought that "specified image is larger than the file", and I can't open the image.

What is going on? Why I can't open in Photoshop files I just recorded in Photoshop? My past few hours have just been a total waste?

jbz2105 wrote:

My past few hours have just been a total waste?

Yes, well enough, unless you know the exact size and can correctly fill required dialogs required to open a "raw" Photoshop file. You've discovered that the 'raw' format isn't related at ALL to Camera Raw. It's really a support to the format in the early years, used at the time where there weren't some formats of files available on some computer systems... and Yes, you SHOULD have used TIFF.

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