Windows 10: Trying to upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro, Microsoft Store directs me to Pro for...

I am trying to upgrade two computers, mine and my wife's. Microsoft store keeps directing me to purchase Win 10 Pro for Workstations. I don't want or need that version. How do I get upgraded to Windows 10 Pro?

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Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro from Home

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I appreciate your interest in Windows 10 Pro. I understand that you are unable to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. I’ll certainly assist you with the issue.



However, please let us know:

• Have you purchased Windows 10 Pro from Microsoft Store?
  
• How are you trying to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro?
  

If you have purchased the Windows 10 Pro upgrade from Microsoft Store, I would suggest you to refer the section
Upgrade using your digital license for Windows 10 Pro in the article
Upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro.



However, if you have a Windows 10 Product key, you can refer the section
Upgrade using a Windows 10 Pro product key from the same article.



If you still face issues in upgrading to Windows 10 Pro, you can get in touch with our live Technical Support team by calling them and they will help you further with the installation. Please refer the article
Global Customer Service phone numbers to get the Customer support
number as per your country.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Upgrading Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro with a VLK

Hello,

I have multiple computers with Windows 10 Home Retail on them and I have a Windows 10 Pro Volume Licensing Key. How would I go about upgrading the Windows 10 Home computers to Pro without having to reinstall. I have tried following this post:

How to upgrade 1511 from Home to Pro?

But the steps listed here do not work. It said to upgrade to Pro using a Windows 10 Pro default key. I entered the key listed but it does not upgrade from Home to Pro.

Is there a way to just put in the pro key on these computers and have it upgrade?

If you could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Thank you,

Sam

 

Upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro with Windows 8.1 Pro key

I've got two laptops:

• the old one, with Windows 10 Pro (1909) installed after a free update from Windows 8.1 Pro
• the new one, with Windows 10 Home (1909) installed

I've got the Windows 8.1 Pro product key, and I want to transfer it to the new PC. Microsoft support tried to help me, but here's the conclusions we reached:

• I can't use the 8.1 Pro product key in the setting to upgrade my Windows 10 Home to Pro
• I could use it if I had Windows 10 Pro installed instead of Home
• I can't use the generic Windows 10 Pro product key to start the upgrade, because the new PC doesn't have a Pro licence
• I could upgrade directly from Windows 10 Home to Pro if I had a Windows 10 Pro product key instead of a Windows 8.1 Pro product key
• I can't upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro and activate it later, because the installer (from the media creation tool) automatically understands that I have a Home licence and not a Pro licence, and doesn't let me choose

So, according to the support guy, my only option is to clean install Windows 10 Pro, and then it will recognize my Windows 8.1 Pro key and activate it.

It seems so weird to me that, having a valid Pro licence (in the form of a Windows 8.1 Pro product key), I can't directly upgrade my Windows 10 Home to Pro. Like, I have the licence, it will only work if I enter it after the upgrade, but I can only start the upgrade after entering the licence ??

So here I am, asking if there's a workaround that would allow me to simply upgrade my Windows 10 Home to Pro without losing any files, programs or settings, just like if I had a Windows 10 Pro product key instead of a Windows 8.1 one.

Is there any way to convince the media creation tool or whatever else to download an iso/anything that would upgrade Home to Pro?

Whatever the answer is, thank you


EDIT: Okay so I had a weird idea and I have no idea if it would work, but basically: what if I clean installed Windows 8.1 Pro on another partition on the new PC, activated it to with the product key, updated it to Windows 10 Pro (is that still possible?)... Would that link a Windows 10 Pro licence to my Microsoft account as a digital licence for the new PC, that I could then use to upgrade the other partition to Pro for free through the Microsoft Store?