Scratch disk is full

So, I bought a new PC. My old version of Photoshop 2006 made my needs very well, however, on my new PC - which has a large HD (on a terabyte) - I was unable to save all the images and kept to "scratch disk is full."

I tried pointing to another drive as disc "scratch"... still would not save.

Turn on because the HD is so great, photoshop does not recognize the terabyte as being a real number... surely there should be a solution for this?
Yes, I have to shell out the extra money & probably to buy a newer version, but this one I have Works for me very well. I'm not a technopile. I don't HAVE to have the most current version. I'm happy with mode "if it ain't broke, don't fix.
As the capabilities of computers increase exponentially I would have thought that a simple fix allowing terabyte hard drives would be a fairly simple thing to implement... Yes? None?

What is the exact version of photoshop you have?

In photoshop, go to help > about Photoshop

Versions of Photoshop 7 and greater cannot see hard drives if you have more than 1 TB of free space on them, and so we get the message from scratch the full disc.

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