Deactivating Elements on an old hard disk

I had Elements 8 installed both on my Desktop and Laptop computers, but then bought Elements 9 and installed that on the Desktop - but didn't know about deactivating Elements 8 until I bought a third (Netbook) computer and wanted to install Elements 8 on this. (I want to use Elements 8 on both the Laptop and Netbook computers because Elements 9 takes up too much disk space).
Unfortunately before I could deactivate Elements 8 on the Desktop its hard dsk failed (and I no longer have it). Is there any way in which I can get that deactivation made?
Anthony.

You will need to contact Adobe support. They will do the deactivation thing for you. Please visit : http://forums.adobe.com/message/5004350#5004350
Thanks
Andaleeb

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