Scratch disks..? WTF are they (PS6)

I've been using ps6 for a good few months now and am quite competent but recently the program has halted on me and come up with an error telling me my scratch disks are full.

I've got the photshop bible and the adobe book on ps6 but neither explain it very well or give me any clue as to how I should make my scratch disks bigger?

gulp... help!

Is your harddrive partitiond? -- if not it should be

A scratch disk is where photoshop hold the temporary information (kinda like ram) -- I usually setup my work computers with 3 partitions, 1 at 5gigs for windows 1 at 1gig (for the scratch) and one with the rest of the space for al my files...

This is also useful for virtual memory --

Anyway back to photoshop ... if you only have 1 drive you cant fake a scratch disk or partition (that i know of) -- you can try Partition Magic ($$) -- and split it, or fdisk your drive AFTER everythings backed up and you have all your dirvers etic(it'll whipe everything out)

The scratch disk is the free space on your drive you cant make it bigger until you either get a bigger drive or erase some stuff on it.

Yup, make partitions. I do like Page12, 3 ones at 10, 10, 20 gigs. The first with xp on it, second with games and images, and the third for scratch...works super. On my old comp (6 gig HD) it didn't quite work that well...:-)