crash on channel load

I am running PS6 and whenever I would go to load an alpha channel as a texture for the lighting effects filter my PS would crash. I restarted, reinstalled and nothing changed. Then I set my scratch disc back to C:, it had it very own HD, and it worked fine can anyone explain this to me? Is there somehting special I should do to my designated HD for PS scratch disc?

is your scratch disk on the same Drive as your Photoshop is? I have my D drive designated for scratch, and my PS6 on C: - this has always been the recommended way to run your scratch, to my knowledge.

Works good for me, often times my temporary PSD files (scratch files) exceed 8-10 GB, and it runs without problems.

i had it set up with PS on C: and D: as scratch disc. D: is a 1.2 gig HD with nothing else on it. with my scartch set to D: is when the problem occured, with it set to C: the problem went away and PS was able to load the channel.

I would be suspect of the 1.2 gig drive, try reformatting it since it doesn't have anything on it, and set it as the scratch again.