Help with CS3 on Windows 7 hard drive.

I have Photoshop CS3 on an XP hard drive.  I have a Windows 7 hard drive now and cannot access Photoshop on the other hard drive and it won't let me install in on the new hard drive.  Do I need a patch or something?  It tells me to uninstall and install again, but it's on the other hard drive and I don't know how to uninstall it there and really need to get this installed again as I need to do a memorial brochure for a friend.  Any help will be appreciated.  Thank you.

You either have to reconnect the old drive as the C: drive and uninstall, well actually, deauthorize photoshop. then switch drives again.
Or
You can notify Adobe that you have more than 2 computers with photoshop installed (the old drive counts as a computer) you need then to reset your license.
Now I am assuming how photoshop was installed, If you already had 2 drives and installed on the second drive instead of the main drive and something went wrong so you can no longer access it. Thats another story.
Adobe has a cleaner app that can find photoshop and remove all traces of it for you, so you can resinstall it. I never used that app, so I can not give advice on how it works, but I have heard other recommend using it.

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