Photoshop CS4 wont open after windows reinstall

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I reinstalled windows the other day there on my primary HDD but on me secondary HDD I have Adobe CS4 installed. It's still there but won't open when I click it. Just the license agreement but when I click accept it just disappears.

Any ideas?
 

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This is new to me, but try a possible re-install. It possible that part of the files were installed on the C(or whatever your default drive is) drive. It's common to happen with Microsoft programs, not sure about adobe though.

-Justin
 

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I reinstalled windows the other day there on my primary HDD but on me secondary HDD I have Adobe CS4 installed. It's still there but won't open when I click it. Just the license agreement but when I click accept it just disappears.

Any ideas?

If you did a clean re-install of Windows, you will need to re-install Photoshop.

If you did a repair installation of Windows (upgrade-in-place over the same version), you may have to re-install Photoshop anyway.

It would have been helpful to de-activate Photoshop before re-installing Windows, to prevent any issues if you needed to re-install and activate the Adobe product.
 

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Thanks for the replies guys. I can't get access to the disks until tomorrow and was looking for a possible quick and simple solution to this.

I did deactivate before reinstalling windows too. ;)
 

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Intel i5-2500k @ 3.3Ghz
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Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
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4GB DDR3
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Nvidia GTS250 1GB
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Sony SDM S95A
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1280x1024
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1x 1TB, 2x 250GB HDDs
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Corsair HX850W
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Cooler Master 690 II
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