Accidentally, I installed my product key for Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional. Is there a possible way to activate Windows with this key?

Activate Windows 7: Home Premium on professional product key - please help!

Hello world

I hope you can help me!
I have a product key for Windows 7 Home Premium. I downloaded it online when I bought it so that I never received a disc to reformat. Someone at work gave me their CD to reformat.
After you reformat and reinstall ALL my programs, I went to activate Windows 7 again. Guess what? Turns out that I used Windows 7 Professional to reformat.
Really, I don't want to go through reformatting and reinstalling everything and don't even know if I'll be able to get my hands on a CD to reformat Windows 7 Home Premium.
Is there anyway can I still activate my product key for Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional? In any case I can exchange my Home Premium product key to a professional one? I love how my computer is currently configured and won't do anything else that just activate my legitimate version of Windows 7!
Thank you all in advance for your time.
Ramon

The only way to do it would be to buy a license for Pro-

Since you have already apparently a licnese to Home Premium, you could buy an upgrade, and then create a repair install with the new key.

If you bought a full Pro license, you will be able simply to insert your new key and activate that.

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