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Upgrade from Home to Pro by transferring a retail license
Hello. I've recently bought a new laptop to replace a stolen one. The new laptop unfortunately comes with Windows 10 Home, and to enable disk encryption I'd need a Pro licence. In the stolen laptop, I had a full price retail Windows 8 licence, later upgraded to 8.1 and 10 Pro.
For what I've read in this forum, my 10 Pro licence would be transferable, since it was originally a retail licence. My questions are:
- can I transfer the licence without having access to my stolen computer?
- can I do an in-place upgrade from Home to Pro in the new laptop just by, perhaps, putting my Windows 10 Pro Retail product key somewhere?
I'm a little confused about this.
Thanks a lot!