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Fri, 03 April 2009 10:30 Go to next message
Chaim_Dworkin (Photoshop begginer)
Hi,

I have Photoshop 7 installed on an old 2.4 MHz DELL with WinXP. This was an upgrade from Photoshop 5 which in turn was an upgrade from Photoshop 3. I recently got a new computer, an HP running 64 bit Windows VISTA. I want to transfer the Photoshop 7 to the new computer and then erase the old computer. When I put the Photoshop 7 (upgrade) install CD in the new computer, it asks for proof that I own an older version. When I put the Photoshop 5 CD in the drive, the Photoshop 7 install program tells me it cannot find an older version to upgrade from and it refuses to install. Is there a solution to this other than installing Photoshop 3 then Photoshop 5 then Photoshop 7 on my computer?

(At this point in time I cannot purchase the latest version of Photoshop; perhaps at a later date I'll be able to.)

Thanks!
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Fri, 03 April 2009 10:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bob Levine[1] (Photoshop expert)
You're going to have a tough time here. The earliest version of
Photoshop with any support for that system is CS3.

The two things I can suggest is using a CD drive instead of a DVD and
see if that helps or copy the installers to the harddrive and try from
there.

Bob
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Fri, 03 April 2009 11:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
gowanoh (Photoshop expert)
Far be it from me to deny Adobe their extortionist tithes but do you know
anyone with a disc that has the version of PS you need so you can install
the legitimate copy of PS7 that you own?
I am not sure that PS7 will run correctly on Vista 64 anyway. Vista 64 is
intolerant of programs that have any 16 bit code, and finicky about many
older 32 bit coded programs as well.
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Fri, 03 April 2009 11:38 Go to previous message
Mylenium (Photoshop expert)
Use ISObuster or similar tools to create images of the install media, then mount them as virtual drives. simply copying the files to the hard drive may also work, as someone a while back suggested, that indeed it only checks for the size of a set of files and their checksum.

Mylenium
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