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I installed CS6 from disc on an external drive attached to my MacBook. (MacBook runs Snow Leopard, external drive Mountain Lion).
The external drive has just failed - will not mount.
I have a replacement hard drive attached to the MacBook on which I can install CS6 - but will this count as a second activation? I can't deactivate the previous installation because the drive is dead ... and eventually when I get the new MacPro I want to have CS6 on that.
Please advise!

I recently had a total hard drive failure as well. my copy of CS6 Production Premium was lost. Since the HDD failure was unexpected I could not deactivate my copy of CS6 before it was rendered irretrievable.
Would it be possible to reset my activation count as well so that I won't lose the option of moving it to a new machine in the future?
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Scott Callison

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