I had my Dell Inspiron 5030 preinstalled with Windows 7 Starter when I bought it less than a year ago, and I wanted to Upgrade my Os to Window 7 Professional. I tried using Windows Anytime Update, and it didn't work. I don't know what to do now?

Check out this forum post - should be relevant to help you troubleshoot the upgrade: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/58125322-e8aa-4007-834b-e3661ce5e3db/ Upgrading from Starter to Professional is definitely supported: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579(WS.10).aspx

Hi, Windows Anytime Upgrade is only available for online purchase in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Please check whether you located in these location. Also Windows Anytime Upgrade only could work with the Windows Anytime Upgrade key. In this case, plese provide more detail information about this problem. If you met any error during WAU, please post the error message here. In addition, you could try following steps to troubleshooting: 1. Check the disk by running the command: chkdsk /f and see what the result is. 2. Please upload your CBS log via SkyDrive and post a link here, then we can analyze the problem deeply. http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive?wa=wsignin1.0 %systemroot%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log file %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Anytime Upgrade\upgrade.log Hope that helps Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ”