My laptop Final Cut Studio won't allow me access.

I have a fully licensed Final Cut Studio including an upgrade for a few years now. It's installed on my PC and Laptop. This morning for some reason the version on my laptop is asking for a serial number before allowing me access. But even when I enter it it rejects it as invalid! How do I access it?

are you sure you're entering the correct serial number and entering it correctly?
Is this an upgrade or a full install? If an upgrade, it may be looking for the original serial number rather than the upgrade number.
If I remember correctly (and I may not be) the serial numbers are in groups of three and each group is either numbers or letters not a mix.
Also, you might want to do the normal troubleshooting steps like repairing permissions, running disk repair on all drives (particularly your startup drive which you'll have to do after booting from your os install disk or another bootable drive), run diskwarrior (if you have it) on your startup drive and deleting fcp preferences

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