Problems installing cs4/not even recognizing the dvd-rom
I bought a CS4 Design Premium Student Edition, have Windows XP (Service Pack 3), 1 GB of RAM, more than 2GHz processor, a DVD-rom drive... But when I finally got my serial number, I put the first disc in and nothing happened. I looked around online for installation problems, ended up using the uninstaller to remove all Adobe programs on my computer, but it hasn't helped. I logged in as the Administrator in Safe Mode and I got the same problem.
This is depressing.
Ok, I copied over the contents first disc to my harddrive and completed that part of the installation, but this is not going to work for disc 2 what with it wanting the disc itself and it still can't read it. Any ideas?
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