Because I've never received any media(CD/DVD/USB/Download URL) from
Microsoft when upgrading from 7 Home Premium to 10 Home to 10 Pro nor
did I see any product keys from Microsoft for 10 Home or 10 Pro. The
only thing I received was the order history on my Microsoft account
that has the order number, date of purchase and the amount I paid for
Windows 10 Pro upgrade.
Your product key is connected to your hardware. Since you upgraded an OEM copy of Windows 7 Home, you received the rights to Windows 10 Home, which you upgraded to an OEM copy of Windows 10 Professional.
At this point if you wanted to install Windows 10 Professional you would just install it, since you don't have to worry about the installer finding the wrong key ( i.e. Windows 8.1 Core instead of Windows 8.1 Professional ), when ask for a license key you simply skip that step.
If I want to reinstall from scratch I have to start from Windows 7
Home Premium, then upgrade to 10 Home(which was free but isn't
anymore), then again up to Windows 10 Pro(using my purchased license
I've never seen). Which means, they said, I have to buy Windows 10
Home now to be able to reinstall from scratch.
You interpreted what they said incorrectly. You can indeed install Windows 7 Home, then upgrade to Windows 10 Home for FREE, since Windows 10 ISOs are 100% free. This is possible because your machine has had Windows 10 Home installed on it before. Of course doing this is a waste of time, since Windows 10 Professional was also activated on your machine, you can simply install that.
I can't burn ISO of Windows 10 Pro to a media and install it right
away because they said it's an "upgrade key" not full retail license
of Windows 10 Pro.
They gave you incorrect information. I don't know what question you literally asked them, it appears you are not clear how Windows 10 itself activates, so lets just move on.
ther rep said: my Windows 7 Home Premium key has been upgraded to
Windows 10 Pro key, and that I can use that key on the sticker on my
computer to install Windows 10 Pro from scratch via burned ISO on a
media.
This is false. A key to one version of Windows 7 cannot install an entirely different version of Windows 10. Windows 7 Home activated before the the offer expired, Windows 10 Home installations, that is all it activated.
Since your machine activation status is tied to a digital entitlement. You can only use a single installation of Windows on this machine unless you provide it an entirely different license key.
Any tool, you normally would use to determine your license key, will return a generic key. It's possible you can get the Windows 10 Professional key, after its been activated, again this will automatically happen since its tied to your
hardware.
if I want to reinstall Windows 10 Pro operating system from
scratch(without using Reset PC or Refresh PC, just please ignore this
option for now) what will I do when prompted for license during
reinstallation/activation phase?
You do understand that if you use the Reset feature, the end result is IDENTICAL, to formatting your machine and installing Windows 10 Professional right?
As for a program that might be able to get the correct key for your installation, the only key I have ever known to work, is ShowKeyPlus
Best Answer
Your Windows 10 Professional license is a digital entitlement. This means you can install Windows 10 Professional without entering a product key, and the installation will automatically activate, because you activated your original installation of Windows 10 Professional before the July 29th 2016 deadline.
You never had to do this even before the changes to 1511, which allowed you to enter your Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 7 product key to activate your Windows 10 installation on hardware where it had never been activated on. Since you activated Windows 10 Professional, before the free upgrade offer deadline, you can simply install the current version of Windows 10 (1607) and it will automatically activate.
You can acomplish this by doing the following. You will need to upgrade your installation to Windows 10 Home. You then upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Professional, using the generic license key, VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T. Once you are upgrade to Windows 10 Professional, navigate to
Settings > Update & security > Activation > Change the product key
and enter your Windows 8.1 Professional license key.How to upgrade to Windows 10 pro from Windows 7 Home
Technically you will have to "lie" and use the "free upgrade" even after it has expired. The free upgrade offer is only being extended to users who are using assistance programs currently. You would have to indicate that this applies to you, since you have the intention of upgrading to Windows 10 Professional using a key that was already used to install Windows 10 Professional, I see no reason to at least attempt the upgrade. Of course once you upgrade the installation from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Professional, you will have reached the point where you cannot return to Windows 7 Home.
The user who asked the original question submitted the following response couple days later so I suggest you give this a try.