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Hi all,
I’m sharing a story here about my adventures with a failing hard drive. Just thought people would like to know:
I installed Photoshop CS on a drive that is *NOT* my boot drive, it is a secondary drive (Drive F).
Shortly after installing and activating PSCS, the drive started acting up. I thought it might be PSCS but I eventually discredited that theroy. It’s just the drive is going bad. When accessing the drive, the OS would lock up at random times.
I pulled out the old drive and installed a new drive of a totally different make, model, capacity, and file system. My OS boot drive (C:\) is the same.
I installed the PSCS upgrade on the secondary drive. Luckily for me, my Photoshop 7 install was, and still is, on my C: drive, so the upgrade went by fine. I had to re-enter my PSCS serial number during the install.
During install, I was not asked to activate, and Activate is not selectable in the PSCS menu.
So, my experience was: I completely switched out the drive that PSCS was installed ans activated on, and did not run into an Activation issues what so ever.
Interesting side note: for a lot of my applications that were installed on my failing drive (Drive F), I simply copied their foldrs from Drive F to the book drive (Drive C). I then removed drive F and installed the new drive, and copied the apps back over from C to the new F, in their old location. This worked like a charm … no need to even reinstall these apps. I didn’t want to try this with PSCS though, due to Activation conserns. But in hindsight I think it would have worked.
~Hanford
I’m sharing a story here about my adventures with a failing hard drive. Just thought people would like to know:
I installed Photoshop CS on a drive that is *NOT* my boot drive, it is a secondary drive (Drive F).
Shortly after installing and activating PSCS, the drive started acting up. I thought it might be PSCS but I eventually discredited that theroy. It’s just the drive is going bad. When accessing the drive, the OS would lock up at random times.
I pulled out the old drive and installed a new drive of a totally different make, model, capacity, and file system. My OS boot drive (C:\) is the same.
I installed the PSCS upgrade on the secondary drive. Luckily for me, my Photoshop 7 install was, and still is, on my C: drive, so the upgrade went by fine. I had to re-enter my PSCS serial number during the install.
During install, I was not asked to activate, and Activate is not selectable in the PSCS menu.
So, my experience was: I completely switched out the drive that PSCS was installed ans activated on, and did not run into an Activation issues what so ever.
Interesting side note: for a lot of my applications that were installed on my failing drive (Drive F), I simply copied their foldrs from Drive F to the book drive (Drive C). I then removed drive F and installed the new drive, and copied the apps back over from C to the new F, in their old location. This worked like a charm … no need to even reinstall these apps. I didn’t want to try this with PSCS though, due to Activation conserns. But in hindsight I think it would have worked.
~Hanford
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