Upgrading windows 7 home premium to windows 10 pro a possibility?

Bree · 2 Weeks Ago

kruuth said:

I made the installer media with a USB drive, and it just says that it will upgrade to windows 10 Home. How do I specify Pro?

Once you have upgraded to W10 Home you can upgrade from Home to Pro just by changing the installed key to a valid Windows 10/11 Pro key. See Step 4 here:

Upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro

Megahertz · 2 Weeks Ago

The procedure I've described above is called "In place upgrade" and should keep data and programs.
As S... can happen, is always recommended to make a drive image and save on an external drive so you can recover in case something bad happens.

Berton · 2 Weeks Ago

kruuth said:

Ok so if I do the upgrade to win 10 home but use a pro key it turns into pro?

Yes. Do the Upgrade first then in System change the Product key.

SIW2 · 2 Weeks Ago

Couple of ways to do it.

Upgrade win7 Home to pro first ( it is quick and easy ) any win7 pro key entered into anytime upgrade does the job of upgrading the edition.

If you want to activate after upgrading the edition, need a valid win7 pro key.

Or upgrade the win10 Home to pro afterwards.

NavyLCDR · 2 Weeks Ago

kruuth said:

OK. I can do the sources thing. However, is it going to allow me to retain everything or do I need to back up first?

The "sources thing" only affects clean installs. It will have no effect on the upgrade from Windows 7 that you want to do. The correct method is what the others have posted: do the upgrade to Windows 10/11 Home, and the upgrade the Windows 10/11 Home to Pro by changing the product key to a valid Windows 10/11 Pro product key.