Installing Adobe Photoshop version 6.0 upgrade on Windows 11 [subject edited for clarity]

[davids16574943]

I have an original 3.5" floppy disk set for Photoshop 3.0 that I originally installed on a PC in 1997.

And from that also loaded (in 2011?) via a CS5 UPGRADE CDROM onto another later but now gone HP Windows Vista computer I upgraded to CS5 with a CDROM I had bought and still have with documentation. Recall having to work with Adobe customer support for some reason I don't recall the reason for to actually get that to load.

After that HP Windows Vista computer motherboard died 3+ years ago, I was able to load via a CS6 UPGRADE CDROM I purchased as a second device onto a 2016 Dell Windows 10 laptop.  Unfortunately  that laptop recently became unbootable due to a corrupted boot sector I will in the future bring down to a computer service with special software capable of rebuilding a few corrupt address on its hard drive. Thus cannot at this point disable the Adobe license since it cannot be booted.  I still have the HP Windows Vista computer hard drive that I potentially could access given a connector interface at a computer service shop.

When I try to directly load the Photoshop CS6 software on my new HP Omen 35L Windows 11 desktop system with the CS6 UPGRADE CDROM it asked to install a previous version CDROM so I installed the above noted CS5 UPGRADE CDROM. However it would not install Photoshop because it didn't detect a valid Adobe 4.0+ full path probably because the CS5 CDROM was an upgrade and not the full licensed media.  The Setup program doesn't ask for serial numbers or product keys and rather just wants to see the media. I vaguely recall that was why I had to work with Adobe previously. This time, Adobe customer support probably won't bother.  

So hoping for advice I haven''t considered.  

Of course, Adobe wants old hold outs like this person to upgrade to their CC subscription model that I may be forced to.  Functionally for my purposes, I've been fine running CS6.

David

[kglad]

why are you trying to install ps 6.0? 

that is expected to fail. install cs6

[davids16574943]

The email came from a Bernard C. and asked  to contact via:

Adobe_Tech@outlook.com

So indeed may be a scam.  Thank you for the warning.

[kglad]

that's a known scammer. do not reply.

[davids16574943]

I just looked at the Wikipedia listing for Adobe Photoshop that includes a section for all the versions that I ignorantly was not aware of what the CS  suffix meant as in "Creative Suite".  For years, as someone that has been using the software but not paying attention to version upgrades, have thought Photoshop 5.0 was CS5 and 6.0 was CS6. Now I see that was quite wrong and I have regretfully been wasting your and others helpful time.  

[kglad]

what's the latest ps version for which you have a serial number and install files?