Win 8 Home OEM to 10 Pro.. via 7 Pro OEM disk?

I've ordered a refurbished Asus laptop that has Win 8 Home preinstalled. I want to upgrade to Win 10 Pro. What'd be the ideal/doable path to do that, considering... I have Win 7 Pro OEM disc.. I don't have any Win 10 discs.

Can I download and do clean install Win 10 Pro from USB.. 'showing' my Win 7 Pro key along the way?
Or do I need to downgrade.. do clean install Win 7 Pro and then go with the online/10 upgrade from there?

I haven't received it yet but I'm assuming there's a D recovery partition.. should I preserve that or is it just not necessary? I'm thinking if I transferred ownership of the laptop later, I might want to disassociate my Win 7 key to that install.. restoring 8 home, upgrade it to 10 home.

Or do I even need to worry anymore about 'one 7 disk to one machine' when it's in path to 10?

I appreciate the help and recommendations.

I would make an image of the factory 8.1. Assuming this is a brand new, unused Windows 7, install that to a second partition you will have to make. Make sure it is activated. Upgrade that to Windows 10 pro.

Wipe the whole thing (or save only the recovery partition if you want), and clean install Windows 10.

sn00ker said:

Has your oem 7 pro disk ever been used before ? OEM are not supposed to be transferable but I have see in some rare cases it still can ( luck on the side ) if not ? Then that would be the way to go about it . You would install 7 and upgrade to 10 . Afterwards you would check to see if you're activated, once it is, then and only then can you perform a clean installation of 10. Also once windows 10 gets installed and is activated it wouldn't matter what windows you install on it because Microsoft keeps a record of your computer/laptop ID . So who ever get this laptop they can always install windows 10 pro over again, up to the life of the laptop or motherboard change

Thanks for your reply..
I have a few 7 pro oem disks I purchased years ago and have used on machines that were upgraded/reinstalled etc several times.. I believe I've installed on 'new' machine after hardware upgrade, had to call once, maybe twice, but was activated.
Anyway, I never used one key on more than one machine at a time and never had an issue activating on 'new' hardware.. even different motherboard. Could activation been successful because I'm still the original registrant?

I got a used Notebook with Win8 OEM installed and went to the store to get the free Update to 8.1 then I was able to get the free Win10 Upgrade. All versions were the Home. I did rebuild a Win7 Enterprise to Win7 Home w/SP1 without issue but did need the Product Key to match the Home version, only way to get the free Win10. The Win7 Ent came out of a business but I wouldn't have been able to work with as I didn't know what business it was, just was classed as a BuyBack.

Can I ask, why do you need the pro version?

dll said:

Thanks for your reply..
I have a few 7 pro oem disks I purchased years ago and have used on machines that were upgraded/reinstalled etc several times.. I believe I've installed on 'new' machine after hardware upgrade, had to call once, maybe twice, but was activated.
Anyway, I never used one key on more than one machine at a time and never had an issue activating on 'new' hardware.. even different motherboard. Could activation been successful because I'm still the original registrant?

Registration, if you mean in Microsoft's use of the term, has nothing to do with activation. You register as a user. You activate software. The two pieces of information are not asscociated by Microsoft. Don't confuse "registration" with "activation."