questionable PS serial number -- options?

[Codger]

About five months ago the hard drive on my trusty 5-year old laptop failed, taking with it my PS CS5.  Since my software had been the "second computer" from a 2012 purchase by my son-in-law, and he'd gone the CC route in 2015, I'd been without PS since January.  Yesterday, while cleaning out some boxes of CDs (drum scans, etc.) I found the old CD that showed what I think is my back-up copy of CS 6 from probably 8-9 years back.  The past few months I've been doing everything with LR, waiting until I get a new computer in August.  Finding the copy disk was good luck.  I can use PS for 75 days, albeit an old version.  My problem is, the CD says the serial number is [removed by moderator] and when I tried to load it, Adobe came back and said it could not continue since it wasn't a valid number.  So . . . what is the number I have (it was sharpied on the CD) and is it possible there's some simple solution like, there's a number or letter out of place, or an extra number that's throwing the registration off?  Any advice would be appreciated.

[Codger]

Actually, I should have identified the old CD as containing Photoshop 5 !!!   Yes, that's very old.  I mistakenly said CS5.

[JJMack · Accepted solution]

You should you should not post your serial number. A thief will make off with it. Ask a moderator to remove it. Most likely to late now...

You may need Adobe Customer support to activate a new install since you old activated machine went belly up.... You wrote CS6 and CS5 now its ps 5 the befor Activation I believe. You would be better off buying Photoshop Elements if you want a Photoshop type editor.  It missing some important Photoshop features but is most likely better than PS5.

To find your correct serial number use Find your serial number

May not be able to go back to PS5 time frame though My old info is not longer in my Adobe account the oldest one I see is PS 7 I believe at one time I also had PS3 and PS5. I did have a Problem with my account though many years ago. The serial you posted was most like incorrect. PS5 is before Adobe Camera RAw and Photoshop Scripting.....