Lost Indesign CS2 fonts

Recently I had to have my hard drive cleaned due to a virus. When I re-installed Indesign CS2, many of the fonts that I formerly had are now gone. How can I get the lost fonts back? I am sure that the solution is simple, but since I am a beginner, be precise with any suggestions. I have Windows XP.

There is no known issue of incompatibility of Type 1 fonts with CS2 on Windows XP.
You say you "upgraded" your workstation to XP Pro. From what version of Windows did you "upgrade" from? Was that an in-place upgrade or did you totally reformat your system partition and do a "clean install" of Windows XP Pro? Only the latter is recommended, i.e., the "clean install!"
In general, Adobe strongly discourages "in-place" Windows upgrades, especially from Windows'9x to Windows 2000 or XP. The fact you refer to ATM 4.0 leads me to believe you attempted to do an in-place upgrade. Note that ATM 4.0 is
not compatible with Windows XP. That may be a major part of the problem. Furthermore, except for support of Multiple Master fonts, you don't need ATM on Windows XP. Finally, Adobe no longer markets or supports ATM Deluxe, although ATM Lite 4.1.1 is available for support of Multiple Master fonts.
Assuming you did an "in-place" Windows upgrade, our best advice would be to reinstall Windows XP from scratch along with font, applications, etc. on a newly formatted disk partition. That would eliminate many problems that you are likely to experience with an "upgraded" operating system beyond simply loss of support of full and proper operating system support for Type 1 fonts.
- Dov

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