Portable Hard Drive Issues!!!!

I had put Adobe Photoshop CS6 on my external hard drive because I had to wipe my computer (Macbook Pro 2011), and now I can't open or use photoshop anymore on either my portable hard drive or laptop. It tells me to uninstall and reinstall the program, but it won't let me do that. I've tried other "fixes", but nothing seems to work. And I have a shoot I need done by the end of the week! Please help!!

C.jones.58 please uninstall using the uninstaller located in the Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers folder. If you have already done this then please use the CC Cleaner Tool to complete the removal process. You can find details on how to download and utilize the CC Cleaner Tool at Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6 - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html.
If you need to download a fresh copy of the installation files they are available at Download CS6 products.

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I found this issue really annoying, let me show you the detail
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2.After I installed all the drivers provided on the website, this issue came out
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madeinguam wrote:
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Hi there.
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That was a bad decision, you may have lost the data.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349221,00.asp - Iomega
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Number Of CPUs: 1
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HI!
two questions....
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a single external hard disk drive device, that the internal drive in
that unit be set up to contain more than one partition, and the
Disk Utility can be used to set that up, too. And when using two
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under both different OS X versions, you can keep those apart
from each other in the external drive in their own place.
Not saying the total and full answer is to just use the best possible
partition map for the correct vintage OS X version, but to use one
that is compatible for both the newer & older, on the external HD.
And to change that mapping scheme would erase the drive.
And I am always open to someone who is more current and has
a great deal more recent experience in these matters, to reply
and set the course straight with a short, quick, workable answer.
Now, I have to go and see about helping someone get a pile of
old firewood from the backyard they were given two years ago.
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