Upgrade 7 Home Premium To Professional With Product Key Initially Purchased
We have a laptop that currently runs Vista Home Premium. We purchased Windows 7 Professional and proceeded with a clean install. After several hours of working with the drivers supplied by the laptop manufacturer (who shall remain nameless) the machine was having significant problems and lost functionality of several components. So here is the question now that I restored the laptop back to Vista:
If I purchase Windows 7 Home Premium and perform an "upgrade" install (vice the clean install) thereby preserving the drivers and programs, can I then upgrade 7 Home Premium to Professional with the product key I initially purchased? From reading the Windows 7 site, I know I can upgrade Home Premium to Professional via the Anytime Upgrade function, but I was not able to find any information on performing the same upgrade using my previously purchased product key.
View Replies (Posted: Monday, October 26, 2009 7:29 AM)
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