I am sure that this has been mentioned in the past. I had an illegal copy of CS3 on my laptop, but my conscience got the better of me and I bought it from WE.

BUT, I can't load it onto my lappie. The drive just doesn't seem to recognise the disk.

I removed all other copies of Adobe programmes but this made no difference. So I re-loaded Elements 6, which goes on fine.

The CS3 disk I have loads straight onto this desktop with no difficulties, so presumably isn't faulty.

Any suggestions, anyone?

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My guess is that it still remains in your system registry, and need clearing from there before trying to install again. Try this Link but there are others, some of which are free. Just do a search for Registry Cleaner.

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SK
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You could also try Revo uninstaller, which when using the advanced mode finds and deletes all program files from the registry http://www.revouninstaller.com/

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This is a documented problem. You need to run the CS3CleanScript from Adobe. I had the same problem upgrading to CS4 (although my conscience has never got the better of me).

You can find the CS3CleanScript files at http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html

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Chris Pirson
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