Hard drive died. Wrote back-up image to new drive, but can't open Adobe. Help, please.

I own Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional. This software can be installed on two computers.
The hard drive in one of my two computers died. Fortunately, I've been doing full-image back-ups (which include the operating system) to an external hard drive. I copied the most recent image (a few hours old) onto the new hard drive.
I can't open Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional from new hard drive. It's telling me that I already have installed it twice and that I'm requesting a third installation which isn't permitted.
How do I get a usable copy Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional on the new hard drive?
Do I perform a Windows Control Panel "Delete" on the program and re-install it from scratch?
Or, is there another procedure?
OR, am I SOL?
Thank you,
Julie

You don't mention the backup software you use, but it would SEEM that it is missing the "hidden" registration files on your hard drive
I use multiple boot drives, via drive swap hardware, making and restoring backups each time I test new software... really easy to go back to "before install" by swapping a drive or restoring a backup... described at http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith/ADOBE.HTM
The backup software I use is at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm - the program includes a "makedisk" routine to make a bootable CD, so the software runs on Linux, completely outside Windoze, and goes direct to the hardware controller, not through the Windoze drivers
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