Photoshop Upgrade CD Doesn’t Recognize Older Version

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Chaim_Dworkin
Apr 3, 2009
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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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Bob Levine
Apr 3, 2009
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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gowanoh
Apr 3, 2009
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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Mylenium
Apr 3, 2009
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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