Windows 7 Home premium to rebuild Professional upgrade from windows 7?

Can I buy a windows 7 Home premium to windows 7 Professional upgrade and then later just to load windows 7 Professional if I have to rebuild my PC?

Yes, you can:

First of all, check that the edition of Windows 7, you are upgrading is already enabled (if it isn't, you will encounter complications and that you might start all by performing a clean installation). Click Start, type Anytime Upgrade, click the option to purchase a key. Wait while loading of the Express Upgrade page, click on the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade to buy it.

Click Next, fill in your details (it is important that you do this because the product key will be sent to you as a backup in case you need to reinstall) enter your credit card information, click next to begin the upgrade, wait while checking the key, accept the license agreement , click upgrade, wait while the software updates, (it may take 10 minutes or more, depending on the case, updates are required), your computer restarts automatically, after the reboot, Windows 7 will notify its update of the computer, the computer will restart once more automatically and will be completed the upgrade, a windows will pop up by notifying the upgrade was successful and your computer is ready to use, click Close, you should be upgraded to Windows 7 Professional, your files, programs and settings stored, proceed to activate Windows 7 Professional.

Windows 7 - Anytime Upgrade - frequently asked Questions:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/Windows-Anytime-Upgrade-frequently-asked-questions

Windows 7 - upgrade Express features:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/Windows-Anytime-Upgrade

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How to reinstall your Express upgrade

Until you do, what I recommend is, after you did the Express of Home Premium Professional upgrade and activate. You should back up your installation as a system. So when you decide you want to start over, everything you do is restore the system image. This will exempt things as the relocation of the base license, reactivation, redo the Express upgrade, then turn it back on again.

http://www.notebooks.com/2009/10/24/how-to-backup-your-installation-of-Windows-7/

The first thing you need to do is to get your key to Windows 7 Professional upgrade Express:
 
An e-mail containing your product key will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your Windows Live ID account or e-mail address you provided if you ignored the account configuration. Note: If you use an email tool or spam blocker spam filter, be sure that you can receive e-mail messages from microsoft.com.
 
What happens if I lose my product key?
 
If you lose your product key, you can return to

www.Windows7.com/GetKey and sign in using the "Sign In" link in the upper right of the page. This will allow to recover your product key if you have established your account with your Windows Live ID. If you do not configure a Windows Live ID account initially there is no record of your online product key. Check your e-mail since it is the only trace of your product key.
 
 
 
or

Here are four utilities, which can display your product keys if they are still there:
Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
(He did a good job of providing a wealth of information.)
 
Also: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml
and: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html
and RockXP: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4138.html which has additional features.
 
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The next thing you need to do is to ensure that your data is backed up:
 
http://notebooks.com/2010/12/27/how-to-backup-to-an-external-hard-drive/
 http://notebooks.com/2011/02/25/how-to-restore-a-backup-from-an-external-hard-drive-in-Windows-7/
 
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The next thing you need to do is to reinstall the base license that you upgraded, Windows 7 Starter Edition or Home Premium.
 
If your computer is pre-installed with Windows 7:
 
New computers coming often pre-installed with Windows 7 have what is called a recovery partition. This is used to reinstall an operating system in the case of a system failure. To access it, you need to start when you start your computer by pressing a function key. This can be either F1, F2, F9, F10, F11, F12 key DEL or tab. See the manual that came with your PC for instructions on how to reinstall Windows.
 
 
 
-Samsung uses ESC on most of its systems
 
-HP use F9 on most of its systems
 
-Fujitsu uses F12 on most of its systems
 
-Acer use F12 on most of its systems, but often you need to go into BIOS to allow

-Dell uses F12
 
 
 
In general, look at the screen during the POST for a tip for what is possible.
 
 
 
If your recovery partition is not available or damaged, you must contact the manufacturer of your computer, and request that a defined recovery disk you can use to reinstall Windows 7. They could practice a small shipping and handling.
 
 
 
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If it was a store bought retail license:
 
http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7
 
 
 
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After you have reinstalled your original license, make sure that it is enabled before doing the upgrade to Windows 7 Professional:
 
How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
 
1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
 
(2) press the ENTER"" key.
 
(3) select your "country" in the list.
 
(4) choose the option "activate phone".
 
(5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
 
(6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
 
 http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

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Redo the Express Upgrade:
 
Click Start, type Anytime Upgrade, click on the option enter a key, enter the key of Windows 7 Professional on demand, click Next, wait while checking the key, accept the license agreement, click on upgrade, wait while the software upgrades, (it may take 10 minutes or more depending on the if updates are required) your computer restarts automatically, after the reboot, Windows 7 will notify you updating the computer, the computer will restart once more automatically and will be completed the upgrade, a window will appear notifying the upgrade was successful and your computer is ready to use, click Close, you should be upgraded to Windows 7 Professional your files, programs and settings retained.
 
 
 
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Go to reactivate the license again.

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