Windows 10: Upgrade W10 Home to PRO ?

I'm needing a workable procdure for this upgrade. Since its been a long time since I purchased a NEW manufactured system (usually build all my own desktops), I know little in what form the machine will be in at power up. Some history first:

I have just purchased a Lenovo laptop to replace my aging HP Envy laptop (should be here this weekend). The Lenovo comes with W10 home, a 512gb NMVE drive and of course it will have it prerequisite Recovery partition of which I will get rid of once I get it up and running in W10 pro.

The question I have is would it be best to perform a upgrade in place or perform a Clean install of W10 pro (I have a new W10 pro Retail key) ? The only benefit that I can see is I will not have to search and download all of the custom Levono drivers. But I will still have to clean all of the crap software they normally include ?

If I opt to perform a clean install, would it be better to extract the drivers before clean install, or try to download them from the Lenovo support site and install them after W10 Pro is installed ? I've noticed with out a serial number (Since all of these manufactures today build 1000 different configurations), using just model numbers does not work any more).

Hope somebody that has done this recently can help me out.

Thanks

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W8.1 pro upgrades to W10 Home

My laptop, running W8.1 pro was upgraded to W10, but the version is W10 Home. How can I revert back to W10 Pro? Why did it not upgrade to W10 Pro initially?

 

why there is just one way to upgrade from W10 Home to W10 Pro?

You can purchase a full license key, but keep in mind, the full retail license for Windows 10 Pro is more expensive than the $99 upgrade through the Store.

Step 1: Purchase license for Windows 10 Pro, then receive your key:

Buy Windows 10 Home/Pro

Step 2: Perform an Easy Upgrade using the key:

• How
  to Perform an Easy Upgrade in Windows 10

 

Can't upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro

Hi Bill,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and will assist you in the best possible ways.

I suggest you to download and create an installation media for Windows 10 Pro form the link provided below:

Download Windows 10

After the installation media is created, suggest you to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro from the installation media. When the upgrade asks for product key, enter the product key purchased for Windows 10 Pro. If it does not accept, suggest you to skip the activation
step. After the Operating System is installed, suggest you to activate by phone by following the steps below:

• Press “Windows key + R” and type “slui 4” and press Enter.
• Select the Region from the list and click Next.
• Call the Toll-Free number provided on top and can activate via phone.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.