Windows 10: Is it safe to upgrade OS to 20H2 if I don't use a Thunderbolt NVMe SSD drive?

I just got a new PC, it has a Thunderbolt port and an internal NVMe SSD drive. It came w/ OS build 1909. My old PC has auto-upgraded to 2004. I tried to migrate using Laplink PC Mover, but it would not move data to a PC with an older OS build. I see that there is a hold on updating the OS because of the NVMe SSD on Thunderbolt incompatibility.


My questions are: 1 Is there an issue that the internal drive is NVMe SSD? My guess is that it would not use the Thunderbolt driver internally and this should be OK, but I'm just a retired software hacker so who knows?


2 If I promise to never try plugging in a NVMe SSD drive into my Thunderbolt port, is it OK to go ahead and upgrade the OS?


Thanks,

Daniel

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Urgent W10 20H2 update

Hi, I have a serious issue with my PC which I hoped to solve by updating to 20H2 (since it's kind of a bigger update and not just a patch update) before proceeding with more invasive and complicated methods; updating is also proposed as a solution in many
microsoft community threads.

Unfortunately, since I hadn't immediately realized 20H2 was rolling out, I went and downloaded the update assistant on the exact day the thunderbolt nvme ssd issue was found.

Since the solution is said to be available in late november, I wonder if there is any way to force the update to 20H2 now without getting stopped by the incompatibily notice that the update assistant tells me when I try to upgrade, since I own absolutely
no thunderbolt nvme ssds and I should really fix the problem my PC has.

My machine is a Dell G5 5590, which was validated by dell to be ready for 20H2 (probably before the thunderbolt issue was found).

I really hope someone will help me.

Best wishes

 

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