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Windows 10 Home upgrade to Windows 10 Professional

Hi - We have a Windows 10 Home client with very little free disk space (approx 6GB). We would like to upgrade to windows 10 Professional to take advantage of 'BitLocker' drive encryption. I'm aware of the upgrade process but would like clarification on the following before proceeding:

1) How much free disk space is required to carry out the upgrade? I'm not sure if the upgrade only involves enabling additional functionality or does it download/install the additional functionality from the Microsoft Store\DVD?

Any assistance would be appreciated

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8/22/2022 - Mon
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John

When I do Repair Install, just my .OLD folder is sometimes more that 20 GB. So I agree with the above that you should get a larger drive.
McKnife

LMG09, do you have a TPM chip? If so, you would not even need to upgrade to pro, but you might be able to use device encryption (which uses bitlocker technology)
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Many thanks for your prompt responses :

McKnife - Whilst the device has a TPM chip, I thought Bitlocker was not supported on Windows 10 Home. Please could you clarify?

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Tom Cieslik

McKnife - I agree, but if something will happen with his computer he not going to be able access data on other computer anymore if he will decide transfer hard drive there for recovery data.
McKnife

Tom, that is simply wrong. The recovery key can be used to recover the data anywhere as with any bitlocker/device encryption scenario.
Tom Cieslik

I didn't know that..
Thank You for information, I'll try this on my backup computer :)
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Thank you all for your expert opinions - Your comments are appreciated