Recovery of Photoshop?

My hard drive blew up.
Lost everything including photoshop 9.
No longer have the disk for photoshop, or the registration key or anything.
For some reason, photoshop wan't in my system backup.
How do I get the thing back without having to fork out a second time?

Even if you were willing to fork out you probably couldn't... Adobe doesn't sell old versions.
You should have an account with Adobe where you can go to acquire the serial number that you used to activate the software.
You can download the trial version of the software from the site linked below and then use your serial number to activate it.
Be sure to follow the steps outlined in the Note: Very Important Instructions section on the download pages at this site or else the download will not work properly.
http://prodesigntools.com/tag/ddl

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On the left side the same image opened in Photoshop, using ACR, all settings default (so no adjustments at import, but the image is imported as 16 bits). Then, using the exposure adjustment (under Image menu) I raised the exposure by 2 stops, like in Lightroom.
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http://www.lightdimension.ro/poze/screenshot.jpg
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Thank you very much for recommending that plug-in, it did not work though.
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SaveChaos wrote:
…but it doesn't feel like corrupt files are the problem…
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