Why Does Adobe Require Reactivation of CS2 after a System ..

Several times in the last 6 months my C drive crashes (for a variety
of reasons not at issue here, although usually because WIN2000 becomes
unbootable) requiring me to do a bare metal recovery by reloading the
disk from the full system backup I create periodically using Acronis
True Image backup software. After reload, everything but CS2 and
Bridge work as usual. However, the CS2 msg requires me to click on a
box that says something like Reregester or Reactivate. I do not have
to rekey any license numbers or anything, just click the box and the
rest was done automatically. The last time this happened the msg said
something like I had run out of reactivations and I had to call Adobe
to "reactivate" CS2. This is a real pain in the neck, particularly
since system crashes do happen from time to time, where time to time
is usually late on a Friday or Saturday night.

CS2 and its predecessor CS have been loaded on the same physical
computer the entire time and they have only been installed on the one
computer. I have never deactivated the software to move it to another
computer.

I only have the problem after a crash and recovery from my backup disk
image.

Since after a full restore, everything including the registry
(WIN2000) are the same as before the crash, I have no idea why CS2
would even think there was a problem.

Regardless, is there something else I can do to ensure that CS2 does
not think there is a problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

On Jan 31, 3:13 pm, "pico" <pico.pico.pico> wrote:
> Adobe writes to an inaccessible
> part of the disc which is not backed up.

I have not worked with Acronis True Image before but it is my
understanding that imaging software works at a level below Adobe,
below the OS and even below format and partition. I think an image
means a bit for bit copy of the HD platter - bad tracks and all if you
choose. I think it's more likely that Adobe is keying off of a time or
bios change. It could detect a change in the boot ini but that should
only change if the drive dimensions or location changed and it sounds
like the OP is using the same drive each time.